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“Cimon and Iphigenia“
The protagonist here is a young man called Galesus. But before they jump ship and flee for Crete. But, as Panfilo
everybody calls him Cimon, which means “idiot.” Cimon’s has told us in the story of Alatiel, Fortune is a fickle
father, Aristippus, is a nobleman of Cyprus and is so mistress. A storm blows their ship off course and they
ashamed of his idiot son that he sends him to live in the wind up in Rhodes. Iphigenia wants to kill Cimon. She’s
country. Cimon isn’t stupid. He’s just a caveman: he won’t sure that the storm is a sign of the gods’ displeasure
wear fashionable clothes or be educated. He probably at Cimon’s actions. Come to think of it, Panfilo never
doesn’t wash every week like his normal brothers. So off tells us that Iphigenia cares for him at all... Cimon and
he goes to the country. On the way, he finds himself in a Iphigenia try to escape into the woods off the coast of
beautiful wood. And in that wood is a beautiful maiden Rhodes, but the sailors capture them and bring them to
asleep by a fountain. She’s practically naked. Cimon thinks the magistrate. So things stand like this: Cimon and crew
that she might be a goddess, so he’s afraid to wake her. land in the clink and Iphigenia stays with some ladies of
Instead, he just stares at her while she sleeps. But when Rhodes until her wedding day. Pasimondas has a brother
she wakes up, we find out that she’s a mortal and her called Ormisdas, who’s sweet on a girl named Cassandra.
name is Iphigenia. She knows Cimon by his idiot reputation. But the magistrate (Lysimachus) aims to marry Cassandra,
He’s handsome and rich, but he’s also big and stupid, so even though Pasimondas is pushing hard for a double
she’s a little worried when he follows her all the way to wedding for himself and his bro. Lysimachus schemes to
her door. But Iphigenia turns out to be Cimon’s eureka carry Cassandra himself. Sound familiar? He goes to Cimon
moment. After he meets her, he starts behaving like a with his plan and offers him a deal. Cimon and Lysimachus
proper gentleman. He dresses well, begins to educate think it would be a great idea to abduct the women from
himself, and maybe even bathes. Cimon not only becomes their own wedding feasts. What could go wrong? So Cimon,
a proper gentleman, he becomes a real lover. He learns Lysimachus and crew crash the wedding quite literally.
to sing and play instruments. Panfilo explains that all of Cimon kills Pasimondas and then Ormisdas when he gets
these virtues must have been locked up in Cimon’s heart in the way of their retreat. They hop back on the ship and
and that Love released them. Cimon begs Iphigenia’s father this time, they make it to Crete, where they marry their
for her hand in marriage, but she’s already promised to beloveds. Their respective families have to clean up the
Pasimondas, a gentleman from Rhodes. Push finally comes mess they left behind in Rhodes, but after a while (and
to shove: Pasimondas sends for Iphigenia so they can get probably a lot of cash), they work it out. The men return to
married. Cimon fits out a ship for war and ambushes the their respective homelands with their brides, and they live
ship carrying Iphigenia to her fiancé. He explains himself happily ever after. At least, the men do. We hear nothing
and demands Iphigenia. Cimon has to rough them up a bit further about the opinions of Iphigenia and Cassandra.
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