Giovanni Boccaccio: A Biographical Study (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Giovanni Boccaccio: A Biographical Study

Among other things I have dealt with, the reader will find a study of Boccaccio's attitude to Woman, and in some sort this may be said to be the true subject of the book.

I have dealt too with Boccaccio's relation to both Dante and Petrarch; and it was my intention to have written a chapter on Boccaccio and Chaucer, but interest ing as that subject is - and one of the greatest desiderata in the study of Chaucer - a chapter in a long book seemed too small for it; and again, it belongs rather to a book on Chaucer than to one about Boccaccio. I have left it, then, for another opportunity, or for another and a better student than myself.

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