. How Liza Loved the King . Lisa was a character in Boccaccio's Decameron, the daughter of an apothecary, who saw King Pietro of Aragon from a distance, and fell in love with him, becoming deathly ill in consequence. The tale was retold in the 19th century by George Eliot (1869) and Charles Algernon Swinburne among others. 1890 17 Edmund Blair Leighton - How Liza Loved the King

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