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  • Italian Novella*Rotunda.
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Filed under Potiphar's wife. A woman makes vain overtures to a man and then accuses him of attempting to force her.

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Telling a story to allay a woman's amorous desiresWoman makes vain overtures to stepson and falsely accuses him of murder. She tries to poison him but her own son accidentally takes the beverage and apparently dies. Plot is revealed when doctor states that he had substituted sleeping potion for the poisonFriar refuses to keep promise after enjoying woman and is accused of rape. CastratedAdulteress tricks husband into killing allegedly importunate loverMother falsely accuses son of incest with herGirl falsely accuses bishop

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