The Palace of Pleasure

The Palace of Pleasure, by
William Painter

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Title: The Palace of Pleasure
Author: William Painter
Release Date: January 1, 2007 [EBook #20241]
Language: 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. Cr[oe]sus
and Solon 49 VIII. Rhacon and Cartomes 53 IX. Artaxerxes and
Sinetas 54 X. Chariton and Menalippus 56 XI. Cyrus and Panthea 58
XII. Abdolominus King of Scythia 69 XIII. Alexander and the Scythian
Ambassadors 71 XIV. Metellus on Marriage 74 XV. Lais and
Demosthenes 77 XVI. Fabricius and Pyrrhus 78 XVII. Camillus and
Schoolmaster 80 XVIII. Papyrius Prætextatus 83 XIX. Plutarch's Anger
85 XX. Aesop's Fable of the Lark 86 XXI. Hannibal and Antiochus 88
XXII. Androdus (Androcles) 89 XXIII. Favorinus 91 XXIV. Sertorius
95 XXV. Sibylline Leaves 98 XXVI. Master and Scholar 99 XXVII.
Seleucus and Antiochus 102 XXVIII. Timon of Athens 112 XXIX.
Marriage of Widow and Widower 114 XXX. The Three Rings 116
XXXI. Borsieri and Grimaldi 119 XXXII. Alberto of Bologna 122
XXXIII. Rinaldo of Este 125 XXXIV. King of England's Daughter 130
XXXV. Randolpho Ruffolo 138 XXXVI. Andruccio 143 XXXVII. Earl
of Angiers 156 XXXVIII. Giletta of Narbonne 171 XXXIX. Tancred

and Gismonda 180 XL. Mahomet and Irene 190 XLI. Lady Falsely
Accused 198 XLII. Didaco and Violenta 218 XLIII. Lady of Turin 240
XLIV. Aleran and Adelasia 249 XLV. Duchess of Savoy 285 XLVI.
Countess of Salisbury 334 Advertisement to Reader 364

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PREFACE.
The present edition of Painter's "Palace of Pleasure," the storehouse of
Elizabethan plot, follows page for page and line for line the privately
printed and very limited edition made by Joseph Haslewood in 1813.
One of the 172 copies then printed by him has been used as "copy" for
the printer, but this has been revised in proof from the British Museum
examples of the second edition of 1575. The collation has for the most
part only served to confirm Haslewood's reputation for careful editing.
Though the present edition can claim to come nearer the original in
many thousands of passages, it is chiefly in the mint and cummin of
capitals and italics that we have been able to improve on Haslewood: in
all the weightier matters of editing he shows only the minimum of
fallibility. We have