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There are four instances of Giovanni Boccaccio in three chapters.
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apply them; they are more easy to be understood than one of Boccaccio’s novels; a child from nurse is much more capable of them, than …
Among books that are simply pleasant, of the moderns, Boccaccio’s Decameron, Rabelais, and the Basia of Johannes Secundus (if those may be …
to make one of their own, and, crowd five or six of Boccaccio’s novels into one single comedy. That which makes them so load themselves …
had need go study the phrases of Amadis, and the tales of Boccaccio and Aretino, to be able to discourse with them.” We employ our …