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La Damigella di Scalot

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La Damigella di Scalot is a thirteenth-century Italian romance novellina, a very short story included in the collection Il Novellino: Le ciento novelle antiche as its 82nd tale. It tells of the unrequited love of the titular Lady of Scalot for Sir Lancelot, and of her subsequent death from lovesickness. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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