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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 . -CONTES ET FA- NOVELLE ANTICHE . - DECAMERON OF BLIAUX . - CENTO BOCCACCIO . IT T seems not a little remarkable that Italy , which pro- duced the earliest and finest specimens of romantic poetry , should scarcely have ...
... GESTA ROMANORUM . -CONTES ET FA- NOVELLE ANTICHE . - DECAMERON OF BLIAUX . - CENTO BOCCACCIO . IT T 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 Roma- norum , and through that performance with stories in the De- cameron . The epistles of Aristenetus contain several tales very much in the spirit of those of Boccaccio . Thus , a lady , while engaged with a gallant , suddenly ...
... Gesta Roma- norum , and through that performance with stories in the De- cameron . The epistles of Aristenetus contain several tales very much in the spirit of those of Boccaccio . Thus , a lady , while engaged with a gallant , suddenly ...
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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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Page 292 - As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den,* and laid me down in that place to sleep ; and as I slept, I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and behold, I saw a man clothed with rags standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back, Isa.