Griselda (folklore)

Griselda is a fictional character who first appears in The Decameron. She is the daughter of a poor farmer who is married to a prince. This prince is Griseldis through various tests to the test to see if his wife is completely devoted to him. Griselda endures all these tests and ordeals patient.

Boccaccio's Italian story was translated by Francesco Petrarca into Latin and thus made accessible to a wider audience. While Boccaccio's version nor the criticism had outweighed the unnecessarily cruel prince, Petrarch is the praise of the patient, her husband and princes entirely devoted wife in the foreground.

Especially Petrarch's version was then the template for further translations and adaptations. Thus appeared in 1473 a German processing of Henry Steinhowel. Chaucer uses the substance in his Canterbury Tales.

The fabric is taken up again and again, such as Hans Sachs and Friedrich Halm, Gerhart Hauptmann and Maria Edgeworth. Alessandro Scarlatti, Antonio Vivaldi, Jules Massenet and set to music the fabric.

The image of the patient Griselda has survived to this day.