Ms. Codex 348 -Alcune novelle di Messer Giovanni BoccaccioWritten in Naples (Italy) in 1731, this ma
Ms. Codex 348 -Alcune novelle di Messer Giovanni BoccaccioWritten in Naples (Italy) in 1731, this manuscript features the verse rendering of five novelle from Boccaccio’s Decameron by Riccardo Petroni of Siena. He was appalled by a previous translation he had read and therefore he wanted to do justice to the great Italian novelist. One of the novelle rendered in verse is the one about Griselda (also featured in Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale).Click here for further information, or here for the facsimile. -- source link
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