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The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

Note 432 — THE FIFTH STORY

John Payne translation

Giovani di tromba marina. The sense seems as above; the commentators say that giovani di tromba marina is a name given to those youths who go trumpeting about everywhere the favours accorded them by women; but the tromba marina is a stringed (not a wind) instrument, a sort of primitive violoncello with one string.

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