“The subject is taken from the tenth tale of the tenth day of Boccaccio’s Decameron, a story rendered into Latin by Petrarch and adapted by Chaucer for the ‘Clerk’s Tale’ in the Canterbury Tales. The Marquis of Saluzzo is persuaded by his subjects to marry, and chooses as his wife a humble peasant girl, Griselda. He then proceeds to test her loyalty by subjecting her to a series of cruel trials, all of which she suffers with exemplary fortitude. For the Middle Ages, Griselda was the embodiment of Patience.”

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