Ribald Classic: The Miller Would A Cobbler Be
June, 1966
There lived once in Florence the cobbler Petruccio and the miller Augustino, who had between them a friendship knit of great depth and truth. Likewise, each had a woman wed—both young and of exceeding fine architecture—between whom there was also a bond beyond breaking. Nevertheless, it chanced that on a certain occasion the cobbler, longing for a change of pasture, decided that on the ladder of desire the comely Caterina, wife of Augustino, ranked a rung above his own spouse, Salvaggia the fair...
