History of Prose Fiction, Volume 2

adventures afterwards appeared Arcadia arrival Astrea Bandello beautiful Boccaccio brother Celadon celebrated Cent Nouvelles Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles century Cervantes character chiefly chivalry Cinthio composition Contes court D'Urfé daughter death Decameron Diana discovered Don Quixote drama duke edition enamoured English entitled fables Fabliau fairy father favour fiction France French Gargantua Gesta Romanorum Gil Blas Greek hero heroic romance Histoire husband imitated incidents Italian novelists Italy king Koerting lady Latin legends Legrand length letter lover manner Marianne mistress monarch monks night novel origin Paris passion pastoral person Petrus Alphonsus poem poet Polexandre popular prince princess printed prose published queen Queen of Navarre Rabelais received resemblance satire says Scarron Scudéry Sethos Seven Wise Masters similar sister Spanish species story Straparola style tale Timoneda tion translated Trouveurs voyage wife writers written young