Chapter XXXIX: Tancred and Gismonda

Tancredi Prince of Salerne, caused his doughter’s louer to be slayne, and sente his harte vnto her in a cup of golde: whiche afterwardes she put into poysoned water, and drinking thereof died.

[_Origin._--Boccaccio, _Decamerone_, giorn. iv., nov. i.

_Source._--Romance of Raoul de Couçy.

_Parallels._--_Med.:_ Aretini, _De Amore Guiscardii_, F. Beroaldo,
Latin verse, Paris, 1599; J. Fleury, _L’amour parfaite de
Giusgardu_, Paris, 1493; A. Guasco in _ottava rima_, Venice, 1600;
W. Walter, _Amorous hysterie of Guistard_, 1532; Howell, _Letters_,
ed. Jacobs, p. 323; Wanley, _Wonders_, II. xii. 24.

_Painter._--I. i. 100; II. i. 92; III. i. 166; IV. i. 180.

_Derivates._--R. Wilmot, _Tancred and Gismund_ (performed 1568,
printed 1591); Turberville, _Tragicall Tales_, iv.]