Corpus Delicti

AdulteryAge versus youthAnimal taleDogDeathDeath of husbandDeceitful womanFoolish old manGullible (would-be) loverLesson: women’s cleverness and deceitMarriageMultiple loversOld manMurderDisposal of corpse

The young wife of an elderly Modenese man convinces her lover to murder her husband. They bury the body together outside of the city walls, where the man's dog discovers it.

Adapted from Wikeley (1983) by Ava Byrne.

Corpus Delicti appears in the following versions and secondary versions

	Has Language Of Version	Has Branch Of Tradition	Is Adapted From
Conyers Version	English	Seven Sages of Rome	English Version H, English Erasto, Francis Kirkman, Prince Erastus
English Erasto	English	Seven Sages of Rome	French Erasto, Italian Erasto
Erasto (Es)	Italian	Seven Sages of Rome	L'Amabile di Continentia (Em)
Francis Kirkman, Prince Erastus	English	Seven Sages of Rome	French Erasto
French Erasto	French	Seven Sages of Rome	Erasto (Es)
L'Amabile di Continentia (Em)	Italian	Seven Sages of Rome
Mario Teluccini, Erasto in verse	Italian	Seven Sages of Rome	Erasto (Es)

Corpus Delicti is narrated in the following occurrences

Narrator	Pages
Agato	English Erasto, Erasto (Es), Francis Kirkman, Prince Erastus, French Erasto, L'Amabile di Continentia (Em), Mario Teluccini, Erasto in verse, Mario Teluccini, Erasto. Pesaro: Girolamo Concordia, 1566., Parma Biblioteca Palatina Parm. 01391, Spanish Erasto

Corpus Delicti appears in the following manuscripts

	Has Language	Has Siglum Of The Version Of The Seven Sages	Has Language Group Within Version