stories, day after day. The mischievous critique of monastic culture contained in Boccaccio's book also led some to wonder whether the erudite title Decameron might not comprise a parodistic dimension.

Boccaccio's subtitle, Prencipe Galeotto, refers to Galehaut, a fictional knight sometimes called haut prince (high prince) in the 13th-century Lancelot-Grail. Galehaut was a close friend of Lancelot, but an enemy of King Arthur.