cabestany

Updated: May 6, 2025

Boccaccio writes Guardastagno, but the troubadour, Cabestaing, or Cabestany, is the hero of the story. The wife of a leech, deeming her lover, who has taken an opiate, to be dead, puts him in a chest, which, with him therein, two usurers carry off to their house.

Giovanni Boccaccio - The Decameron, Volume I