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The Friar of Novara – Angolo Firenzuola (1493-1546)
One of the most brilliant of the Renaissance scholars and poets, Angolo Firenzuola belonged to the group that scandalized even his contem-poraries by associating with the notorious Aretino. Bom near Pistoja in Tuscany, he became, like many a worldly writer of his time, a monk, and he may even have risen to the dignity of abbot. He lived for a time in Rome and then returned to his native Tuscany, to the city of Prato. His poetry is still admired by the critics, and his scholarly achievements are mentioned with respect. But the best of his stories, are read with pleasure. He laid no claims to originality, and most of his plots he borrowed. The Friar of Novara is none the less a sprightly story.

The present version in translated by Thomas Roscoe, and reprinted from his Italian Novelists, London, no date. The story has no title in the original.
The Friar of Novara
It was a privilege enjoyed by the relater of the tenth or last story of the day, in Boccaccio’s Decameron, occasionally to leave the beaten track, and enter upon any fresh subject which might be thought most agreeable; an example which, in the present instance, as I am the last in the series, I intend to follow. Proclaiming a truce, therefore, to our love adventures, which have occupied us nearly the whole of the day, I wish to amuse you with some account of a certain friar of Novara who flourished about twenty years ago.

The Friar of Novara part 7

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Here the risible muscles of the-notary would permit him to proceed no further, and his laugh was speedily caught and re-echoed through the whole court; insomuch that the poor friar, overwhelmed with ridicule and...

The Friar of Novara part 6

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Ser Tomeno, the moment he had perused this document, lost no time in acquainting Agabio with the progress of the affair, and he, desiring nothing better, took his attorney along with him, and called...

The Friar of Novara part 5

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This done, they next despatched a confidential servant with a message to the wily monk in their mother`s name, begging that he would no longer give himself the trouble of calling, as her sons,...

The Friar of Novara part 4

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Alarmed at the idea of being in a similar predicament, and feeling extremely weak and troubled, such was the impression of the monk`s oratory, that she was just on the point of yielding her...

The Friar of Novara part 3

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They are equally cautious not to burden the mind with too much study, finding the truth of the Scripture observation, that it is indeed “a weariness to the flesh”; besides the holy dread they...

The Friar of Novara part 2

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But this excellent and considerate husband was scarcely laid at rest in the ground before tidings of this his last will and testament reached the ears of the superior of the convent of San...

The Friar of Novara part 1

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Angolo Firenzuola (1493-1546)One of the most brilliant of the Renaissance scholars and poets, Angolo Firenzuola belonged to the group that scandalized even his contem-poraries by associating with the notorious Aretino. Bom near Pistoja in...

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