The black falcon
Subtitle: a tale from the Decameron
By: retold by William Wise ; illustrated by Gillian Barlow.
Contributors: Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.; Barlow, Gillian, ill.
Publisher: Philomel Books
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Falcons -- Fiction.
Description: When the wealthy and now-widowed woman whom the impoverished Federigo has always loved invites herself to his home for dinner to make a life-or-death request of him, she learns, ironically, he has already sacrificed all he had in his love for her.