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>Has anyone ever seen a reference to tarring and feathering (spalmare di
>pece ...) as a punishment in an Italian context?
The second novella of the fourth day of Boccaccio's "Decameron" has frate
Alberto smeared with honey, then covered with feathera and exposed to
public humiliation for the trick he played on on madonna Lisetta.
Nicole Prunster
La Trobe University
Melbourne, Australia
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>Will Sayers
>Collection Development
>Cornell UniversityLibrary
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