The castle of Caltabellotta and Boccaccio's Decameron
The Castle of Caltabellotta is mentioned in one of the tithes of Boccaccio's Decameron.
In the story of the Decameron, daily. 10.7, it is said that in 1282, the young Lisa Puccini fell madly in love with King Peter of Aragon and asked a talented troubadour to tell the king, in verse, about his pain:
"Move, love, and go to Messere,
And count the pain that I support:
Tell him that I am going to death,
Concealing my will for fear.
King Pietro, struck by so much love, went to her, who was immediately healed by her joy, and gave her the noble young Perdicone as a dowry and the castle and the lands of Caltabellotta as a dowry.
