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Mrs. Rosie and the Priest by Giovanni Boccaccio
'When the men were off somewhere, he would come visiting their wives more solicitously than any priest they'd had before...'

Four hilarious and provocative stories from Boccaccio’s Decameron, featuring cuckolded husbands, cross-dressing wives and very bad priests.
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64 pages first pub 1353 (editions)

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