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... Gesta Romanorum - Contes et Fabliaux - Cento Novelle An- tiche - Decameron of Boccaccio CHAPTER VIII . Italian imitators of Boccaccio - Sacchetti - Ser Giovanni - Mas- succio - Sabadino - Giraldi Cinthio - Straparola - Bandello ...
... Gesta Romanorum - Contes et Fabliaux - Cento Novelle An- tiche - Decameron of Boccaccio CHAPTER VIII . Italian imitators of Boccaccio - Sacchetti - Ser Giovanni - Mas- succio - Sabadino - Giraldi Cinthio - Straparola - Bandello ...
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... GESTA ROMANORUM . BLIAUX . - CENTO BOCCACCIO . CONTES ET FA- NOVELLE ANTICHE . - DECAMERON OF IT seems not a little remarkable that Italy , which pro- duced the earliest and finest specimens of romantic poetry , should scarcely have ...
... GESTA ROMANORUM . BLIAUX . - CENTO BOCCACCIO . CONTES ET FA- NOVELLE ANTICHE . - DECAMERON OF IT seems not a little remarkable that Italy , which pro- duced the earliest and finest specimens of romantic poetry , should scarcely have ...
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... Gesta Romanorum , a great store- house of the Italian novelists . The tale of the thief who breaks his neck by catching at a ray of the moon , ' occurs in the Gesta and the French Fabliaux . But I remember only one Italian novel , the ...
... Gesta Romanorum , a great store- house of the Italian novelists . The tale of the thief who breaks his neck by catching at a ray of the moon , ' occurs in the Gesta and the French Fabliaux . But I remember only one Italian novel , the ...
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... Gesta Romanorum , and is also to be found in 1 See Keller , Romans , p . clxxviii . , Doni , Trattato diversi de Sendabar Indiano , Venez . 1552 , Tratt 4 . 2 First published by Barbazan , in 1760 , under their old title , Le ...
... Gesta Romanorum , and is also to be found in 1 See Keller , Romans , p . clxxviii . , Doni , Trattato diversi de Sendabar Indiano , Venez . 1552 , Tratt 4 . 2 First published by Barbazan , in 1760 , under their old title , Le ...
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... Gesta Romanorum , and which , strictly speaking , should be considered as separate performances . The first and original Gesta was written in Latin , on the continent . It was not translated into English till 1703 , but has been ...
... Gesta Romanorum , and which , strictly speaking , should be considered as separate performances . The first and original Gesta was written in Latin , on the continent . It was not translated into English till 1703 , but has been ...
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