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Pagina 237
... BOCCACCIO , and fixed his instant decision . As yet young , and in the neighbourhood of Naples , wandering for recreation , he reached the tomb of the Mantuan . Pausing before it , his youthful mind began to meditate . Struck by the ...
... BOCCACCIO , and fixed his instant decision . As yet young , and in the neighbourhood of Naples , wandering for recreation , he reached the tomb of the Mantuan . Pausing before it , his youthful mind began to meditate . Struck by the ...
Pagina 240
... BOCCACCIO's own words for a proof of his early natural tendency to tale - writing , in a passage of his genealogy of the Gods : " Before seven years of age , when as yet I had met with no stories , was without a master , and hardly knew ...
... BOCCACCIO's own words for a proof of his early natural tendency to tale - writing , in a passage of his genealogy of the Gods : " Before seven years of age , when as yet I had met with no stories , was without a master , and hardly knew ...
Pagina 297
... BOCCACCIO has given an interesting account of the mode of life of the studious PETRARCH , for on a visit he found that PETRARCH would not suffer his hours of study to be broken into even by the person whom of all men he loved most , and ...
... BOCCACCIO has given an interesting account of the mode of life of the studious PETRARCH , for on a visit he found that PETRARCH would not suffer his hours of study to be broken into even by the person whom of all men he loved most , and ...
Pagina 333
... Boccaccio sent to PETRARCH a copy of DANTE , declaring that the work was like a first light which had illuminated his mind , did Petrarch coldly observe that he had not been anxious to inquire after it , for intending himself to compose ...
... Boccaccio sent to PETRARCH a copy of DANTE , declaring that the work was like a first light which had illuminated his mind , did Petrarch coldly observe that he had not been anxious to inquire after it , for intending himself to compose ...
Pagina 380
... Boccaccio , thus BOCCACCIO became the defender of his master's genius . Perhaps friendship is never more intense than in an intercourse of minds of ready counsels and inspiring ardours . United in the same pursuits , but directed by an ...
... Boccaccio , thus BOCCACCIO became the defender of his master's genius . Perhaps friendship is never more intense than in an intercourse of minds of ready counsels and inspiring ardours . United in the same pursuits , but directed by an ...
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