 The story of the pear tree, best known to English-speaking readers from "The Canterbury Tales", also originates from Persia in the "Bahar-Danush", in which the husband climbs a date tree instead of a pear tree.The story could have arrived in Europe through the "One Thousand and One Nights", or perhaps the version in book VI of the "Masnavi" by Rumi.Two Sienese men love a lady, one of them being her child's godfather