Note 66 — Chapter II
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We fix the approximate date of Boccaccio's presentation at court by his own words in the De Casibus Illustrium Virorum, Lib. IX, cap. 26: "Me adhuc adulescentulo versanteque Roberti Hierosolymorum et Sicilicæ Regis in aula..." As we have seen, adolescence began, according to the reckoning then, at fourteen years. To strengthen this supposition, we know that Boccaccino was in Naples at that time, and in relations with King Robert. See Appendix I.