The Palace of Pleasure Volume 1

Painter William 1540?-1594

English

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The

*PALACE OF PLEASURE*

_Elizabethan Versions of Italian and French Novels_
_from Boccaccio, Bandello, Cinthio, Straparola,_
_Queen Margaret of Navarre,_
_and Others_


Done Into English

By WILLIAM PAINTER


_Now Again Edited For The Fourth Time_

By JOSEPH JACOBS


VOL. I.

[Illustration: Publisher’s Device]

_London: Published by David Nutt in the Strand_

MDCCCXC




Ballantyne Press
Ballantyne, Hanson and Co.
Edinburgh and London




To
_EDWARD BURNE-JONES_




TABLE OF CONTENTS.


VOLUME I.
Page
Preface ix
Introduction xi
Preliminary Matter (From Haslewood) xxxvii
Appendix of Documents Relating to Painter liii
Analytical Table of Contents of the Whole Work lxiii
Index of Novels xcii

TOME I.

Title (Facsimile of First Edition) 1
Dedication to Earl of Warwick 3
List of Authors 9
To the Reader 10
Novel
I. Horatii and Curiatii 15
II. Rape of Lucrece 22
III. Mucius Scævola 26
IV. Coriolanus 29
V. Appius and Virginia 35
VI. Candaules and Gyges 46
VII. Crœsus and Solon 49
VIII. Rhacon and Cartomes 53