G. K. Hunter Book order (chronological)

Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice: all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become an enduring classic of the world's literature.

This work is a classic Renaissance tale, taken largely from Boccaccio's Decameron, and concerns unrequited love, love renounced and love triumphant. It contains a fully developed sub-plot, concerning the worthless braggart Parolles, which is comically inventive.