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Do you know of any songs/music based on the story/poem/painting of "Isabella and the Pot of Basil"?

I'm looking for any music or songs written based on this story from "The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio.

Summary: Lisabetta's brothers slay her lover: he appears to her in a dream, and shows her where he is buried: she privily disinters the head, and sets it in a pot of basil, whereon she daily weeps a great while. The pot being taken from her by her brothers, she dies not long after.

John Keats also wrote a poem titled "Isabella or, the Pot of Basil" and John William Waterhouse, Wilholman Hunt, and John White Alexander all also did paintings based on the same story.

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