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In a story by this author, a Chinese man shames his young rival’s plot to outdo his generosity by gladly agreeing to swap identities. A judge created by this author digs up a venomous toad from a garden to solve the deaths of two lovers who rubbed their teeth with sage. In a story by this author, eight successive lovers, like Uzbek the Turk, fail (10[1])to forestall the virgin wedding of the sultan’s daughter Alatiel. Giosuè Carducci wrote that this author looked outward, while the other two of the “three crowns” looked inward and upward. In a story this author set in (10[1])Barbary, the innocent (10[1])Alibech is seduced into “putting (10[1])the Devil (-5[1])back in hell,” stretching the theme of regained losses set by the day’s (10[1])brigata queen Neifile (“NAY-ee-fee-lay”). For 10 points, (10[1])what trecento (“tray-CHEN-toh”) author grouped 100 novelle (10[1])with a frame story (10[1])about ten (-5[1])Florentines (10[9])who flee (10[1])the plague (10[1])in his (10[1])Decameron? ■END■

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