Elissa Timeline and Summary

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Elissa Timeline and Summary

  • Elissa meets her friends at the church of Santa Maria Novella and stays to pray.
  • When Pampinea proposes the trip and Filomena objects, Elissa seconds her and says that they will have a hard time finding any men still alive to accompany them.
  • At the end of the Fifth Day, she's crowned queen by Fiammetta. She has a hard time reining in Dioneo, who keeps suggesting filthy songs to sing at the conclusion of the day.
  • She sets the theme of "Witty Remarks" for her reign; Tindaro and Licisca interrupt the opening of storytelling and Elissa asks Dioneo to arbitrate.
  • At the end of the Sixth Day, Elissa elects Dioneo as king and then secretly takes the women to the Valley of the Ladies.
  • She sings the concluding ballad "Love, if I ever from thy claws break free."