SOURCES FOR THE DEVIL IS AN ASS

Boccaccio, Giovanni. Decamerone (collection of tales, 1471). 3.5.

(perhaps) Machiavelli, Niccolò. Novella Di Belfagor Arcidiavolo (1545).

Nashe, Thomas. Piers Penniless his Supplication to the Devil (1592).

REFERENCE : Peter Happé, ed. The Devil is an Ass. The Revels Plays. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994. 26-34.