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Il Novellino

Note 1 — XXXVIII Of an astrologer called Melisus, who was reprimanded by a woman

Edward Storer translation

When Bishop Aldebrandino1 was living in his Palace at Orvieto, he was at table one day, in the company of various Franciscans, and there being one of them who was eating an onion with much relish; the Bishop watching him, said to a page: Go to that friar, and tell him that gladly would I change stomachs with him.

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