page_title: Summary of Decameron tales
section_title: Fifth tale (IV, 5)
hierarchical_section_title: Summary of Decameron tales / Fourth day / Fifth tale (IV, 5)
context_page_description: Each story of the Decameron begins with a short heading explaining the plot of the story. The 1903 J. M. Rigg translation headings are used in many of these summaries. Commentary on the tale itself follows.
context_section_description: Lisabetta's brothers slay her lover. He appears to her in a dream and shows her where he is buried. She disinters the head and sets it in a pot of basil, whereon she daily weeps a great while. Her brothers take the pot from her and she dies shortly after.
  Filomena tells this story, one of the most famous in the Decameron, and the basis of John Keats' narrative poem Isabella, or the Pot of Basil.
caption: Isabella and the Pot of Basil by William Holman Hunt
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