Resultados para "Griselda" en Literatura y ficción

"Griselda" de Giovanni Boccaccio es una novela que aparece en su colección de cuentos conocida como el "Decameron". El cuento narra la historia de Griselda, una humilde y virtuosa campesina, que se casa con Gualtieri, el marqués de Saluzzo. A pesar de la inquebrantable lealtad y devoción de Griselda, Gualtieri la somete a numerosas pruebas y humillaciones para poner a prueba su fidelidad. Griselda soporta estas pruebas con notable paciencia y fortaleza, demostrando finalmente su firmeza y recuperando la admiración de Gualtieri.

"Patient Griselda" is arguably the best and certainly one of the most famous tales from The Decameron.

Welcome back to Bright's Pond. Now that her morbidly obese sister, Agnes Sparrow, is comfortably dieting at the Greenbrier nursing home, Griselda has time to fly - literally. A pilot makes an emergency landing on Hector's Hill and creates quite a ruckus in the otherwise sleepy town of Bright's Pond. Griselda becomes enamored with Cliff Cardwell and his airplane, a 1952 Cessna Beachpiper, and takes him up on his offer of flying lessons.

Evan Michael Sedgewyck, ninth Earl of Coventry, is doomed to walk the earth as a dragon-shifter, but it’s his actions that have caused his own personal hell. Beastly half aside, he’s been a widower for seven years, and the moment he decides to attend a ball and perhaps enter the Marriage Mart again, he stumbles into a woman he once thought dead - his wife. Yet the anger he carries doesn’t diminish.