VOLUME VI
Reading edition
WOMEN OF THE ROMANCE COUNTRIES
by
JOHN R. EFFINGER, Ph.D.
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
BOCCACCIO'S MERRY RACONTEURS After the painting by Jacques Wagrez
In the meantime, Naples, in the hands of the invaders, had been stained with blood, and then ravaged by the great plague of which Boccaccio has given us a picture, and of the idyllic way the rich people passed their time, in his Decameron.