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Griselda
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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famous heroine of mediæval tradition; figures in Boccaccio, Petrarch, and Chaucer, and in later dramatists of England, Germany, and Spain; the beautiful daughter of a Piedmontese peasant, she was loved and married by the Marquis Walter of Saluzzo; his jealous affection subjected her to several cruel tests of love, which she bore with "wyfly pacience," and in the end "love was aye between them twa."
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Griselda'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/g/griselda.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Griselda'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/g/griselda.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
