Chapter One Introduction
Introduction
In Story Three of Day Ten of The Decameron ， a controversial name is mentioned by Boccaccio. 
“It is a very certain thing (if credit may be given to the report of divers Genoese and others who have been in those countries) that there was aforetime in the parts of Cattajo a man of noble lineage and rich beyond compare， called Nathan， who， having an estate adjoining a highway whereby as of necessity passed all who sought to go from the Ponant to the Levant or from the Levant to the Ponant， and being a man of great and generous soul and desirous that it should be known by his works， assembled a great multitude of artificers and let build there， in a little space of time， one of the fairest and greatest and richest palaces that had ever been seen， the which he caused excellently well furnished with all that was apt unto the reception and entertainment of gentlemen.” 
(Boccaccio， 2003: 468)