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The Italian L'Amabile di Continentia is one of the later I (Versio Italico) redactions, and is closely related to the Erasto narrative. It is critically assumed to be Erasto's source, in fact (see Cesari (1896), Wikeley (1983), etc.). This is due to the fact that unlike most of Version I redactions, in L'Amabile the prince is not named Stefano, but rather Erasto. As in Erasto, the stepmother is named Afrodisia, while the sages are given names designed to sound Greek: Euprosigorus, Dimurgus, Thermus, Enoscopus, Philantropus, Agathus, Leucus (Campbell (1907) and Cesari (1896)).

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Recorded secondary versions
I (Versio Italico) Erasto Il Libro dei Sette Savi de Roma (C) L'Amabile di Continentia Storia d'una Crudele Matrigna (M) Storia di Stefano (R) Versio Italica historiae septem sapientum (L)

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Modern Scholarship and Editions
Modern research literature	Cappelli (1865)
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Notes and Commentary
Note	Regarded by Wikeley (1983) to be the 'prototype' of Erasto.
Notes on motifs
Notes on the frame	Sages' names are taken from Campbell, and Cesari.

Pattern of embedded stories in this version

Has Short Title	Has Sequence Number	Has Narrator	Has Name Variation
Canis	1	Euprosigorus	Euprosigoro
Arbor	2	Empress	Afrodisia
Medicus	3	Dimurgus	Dimurgo
Aper	4	Empress
Tentamina – The Test	5	Thermus	Termo
Sapientes – The Wise Men	6	Empress
Zelus – Zeal	7	Enoscopus	Oinoscopio
Gaza	8	Empress
Inclusa	9	Philantropus	Filantropo
Roma	10	Empress
Corpus Delicti	11	Agathus	Agato
Virgilius	12	Empress
Caepulla	13	Leucus	Leuco
Puer Adoptatus	14	Empress

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