GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO
Reading edition
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
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SIGISMONDO MALATESTA. 1906.
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COUNTRY WALKS ABOUT FLORENCE. 1908.
IN UNKNOWN TUSCANY. 1909.
EDITED BY EDWARD HUTTON
MEMOIRS OF THE DUKES OF URBINO. By James Dennistoun of Dennistoun. Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 to 1630. New Edition, with upwards of 100 Illustrations. 3 vols. Demy 8vo. 1908.
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Traditional Portraits of Boccaccio & Fiammetta (Maria d'Aquino)
From the Frescoes in the Spanish Chapel of S. Maria Novella, Florence.
GIOVANNI
BOCCACCIO
A BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY BY EDWARD HUTTON
WITH PHOTOGRAVURE FRONTISPIECE & NUMEROUS OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS
But if the love that hath and still doth burn me No love at length return me, Out of my thoughts I'll set her: Heart let her go, O heart I pray thee let her! Say shall she go? O no, no, no, no, no! Fix'd in the heart, how can the heart forget her.
LONDON: JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY MCMX
PLYMOUTH: WM. BRENDON AND SON, LTD., PRINTERS
TO MY FRIEND J. L. GARVIN THIS STUDY OF AN HEROIC LIFE