The Decameron · Character
Constantine
A young lover whose devotion to a disdainful woman drives him to the edge of ruin before a strange vision in the pines changes everything.
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First appearance: the fifth story
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Constantine is a wealthy young man of Ravenna whose obsessive pursuit of an unyielding lady exhausts both his fortune and his friends' patience. Sent away to forget her, he camps near Chiassi and wanders into a…
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