Tales from the Gesta Romanorum, tr. by Rev. C. Swan

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Translator

Swan, Charles, 1797-

Title

Tales from the Gesta Romanorum

Credits

Produced by Richard Tonsing, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PA: Language and Literatures: Classical Languages and Literature

Subject

Exempla -- Early works to 1800

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 58655

Release Date

January 8, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.TALES FROM THE GESTA ROMANORUM
2. 2.PREFACE TO THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION (PUBLISHED BY WILEY & PUTNAM IN 1845).
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.CHAPTER I. — THE UNGRATEFUL MAN. — JOVINIAN THE PROUD EMPEROR.
5. 5.CHAPTER II. — THE KING AND THE GLUTTON. — “GUIDO, THE PERFECT SERVANT.”
6. 6.CHAPTER III. — “THE KNIGHT AND THE KING OF HUNGARY.”
7. 7.CHAPTER IV. — THE THREE BLACK CROWS. — THE EMPEROR OF ROME AND HIS THREE DAUGHTERS. — THE TALE OF THE THREE CASKETS.
8. 8.CHAPTER V. — THE ANGEL AND THE HERMIT. — FULGENTIUS AND THE WICKED STEWARD.
9. 9.CHAPTER VI. — “THE WICKED PRIEST.” — “THE EMPEROR’S DAUGHTER.” — THE EMPEROR LEO AND THE THREE IMAGES.
10. 10.CHAPTER VII. — THE LAY OF THE LITTLE BIRD. — OF THE BURDENS OF THIS LIFE.
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII. — “THE SUGGESTIONS OF THE EVIL ONE.” — “COTONOLAPES, THE MAGICIAN.” — THE GARDEN OF ALOADDIN. — SIR GUIDO, THE CRUSADER.
12. 12.CHAPTER IX. — “THE KNIGHT AND THE NECROMANCER.” — “THE CLERK AND THE IMAGE.” — “THE DEMON KNIGHT OF THE VANDAL CAMP.” — “THE SEDUCTIONS OF THE EVIL ONE.”
13. 13.CHAPTER X. — THE THREE MAXIMS. — “THE TRIALS OF EUSTACE.”
14. 14.CHAPTER XI. — THE QUEEN SEMIRAMIS. — “CELESTINUS AND THE MILLER’S HORSE.” — “THE EMPEROR CONRAD AND THE COUNT’S SON.”
15. 15.CHAPTER XII. — THE KNIGHT AND THE THREE QUESTIONS. — “JONATHAN AND THE THREE TALISMANS.”
16. 16.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

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