![]() ![]() As often happens to most gentlemen, he fell in love with a lady named Monna Giovanna, in her day considered to be one of the most beautiful and one of the most charming women that ever there was in Florence and in order to win her love, he participated in jousts and tournaments, organized and gave feasts, and spent his money without restraint but she, no less virtuous than beautiful, cared little for these things done on her behalf, nor did she care for him who did them. ![]() ![]() There was once in Florence a young man named Federigo, the son of Messer Filippo Alberighi, renowned above all other men in Tuscany for his prowess in arms and for his courtliness. ![]()
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