Boccaccio observes torture, (Miniature) Book V, chapter 1. Boccaccio and companions watch from a building as a man rolls in a barrel towards a pool. In the background, a man tied to a stake is being blinded. The text below refers to the deaths of Seleucus and Antiochus. Image taken from Le livre des cas des nobles et illustres hommes. Originally published in Circa 1470.