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Boccacio : Decameron

'Hear what I have read since I came here. Hear and wonder! I have in the first place read Boccacio's Decameron, a tale of a hundred cantos...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay      Print: Book

Giovanni Boccacio : [tales from the 'Decameron']

'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some talk.—I dined with our whole company at the Monastery.—In the library, "Beroald",—"Cymon",—"Titus", from Boccace.—"Oratio Proverbialis" to the Virgin, from Petrarch; Falkland to Sandys;—Dryden's Preface to the third vol. of Miscellanies.' [Boswell's footnote: 'He means, I suppose, that he read those different pieces, while he remained in the library'.]

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

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