| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| GRISELDA | Patient wife in a Boccaccio tale |
| ALISON | Young wife in a "Canterbury" tale. |
| bluebeard | A character in a tale by Charles Perrault, who killed several wives in turn for disobeying his order to avoid a locked room, which contained the bodies of his previous wives. Local tradition in Brittany identifies him with Gilles de Rais (c.1400รป40), a perpetrator of atrocities, although he had only one wife (who left him) |
| novella | tale or short story of the type contained in the Decameron of Boccaccio |
| novelle | tale or short story of the type contained in the Decameron of Boccaccio |
| novellas | tale or short story of the type contained in the Decameron of Boccaccio |
