Note 477 — Chapter IV · HUMANISM IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
Boccaccio, in a later letter to Jacobus Pizinga (Opere Volgari, vol. xvi.), confines himself more strictly to poetry properly so called. And yet he only recognises as poetry that which treated of antiquity, and ignores the Troubadours.