Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The witty friar was Roberto Caraccioli-Caraccioli, called Robert Liciens, born 1425. 140. What an Italian fryer dyd in his preachyng. Another anecdote of Robert Liciens. Certaine Tragicall Discourses written oute of Frenche and Latin, by Geffraie Fenton, no lease profitable than pleasaunt, and of like Necessitye to al degrees that take pleasure in antiqui- tyes or forraine reportes. Mon heur viendra. Imprinted at London in Flete-strete nere to Sainct Dunstons Churche by Thomas Marshe. Anno Domini. 1567. 4to. Black letter. 317 leaves. Also, 1576. 4to., and 1579. 4to. Black letter. Dedicated to Lady Mary Sydney. Warton characterizes Fenton's " Discourses " as " the most capital miscellany of its kind." There are in all thirteen well-selected, well-told stories, whose short titles it is quite worth while to note. 1. The Gentleman of Sienna. This is a translation of Ilicini's celebrated novella, The Courteous Salimbeni. Bandello tells the same story, I, 49. Like Romeo and Juliet, the tale is said to be founded on fact, and to record an actual occurrence in the history of the two noble Sienese families of Salimbeni and Montanini. The underplot of Hey wood's comedy, A Woman Killed with Kindness, 1607, 4to., has been traced to this novel. 2. Livio and Camilla. 3. A Young Lady of Milan. 4. The Albanoyse Captain. 5. Young Gentleman of Milan. 6. The Villainy of an Abbot. 7. The Countess of Celant. Bandello also tells this story, I, 4. It is the source of Marston's tragedy, The Insatiate Countess (Barksted's Tragedy). 1613. 4to. 8. The Drowning of Julia. 9. The Lady of Chabrye. 10. The Love of Luchin. 11. The Widow'a Cruelty. Bandello, in, 7. The incident of the lady swearing her lover to be dumb, for three years ...