TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have beencorrected after careful comparison with other occurrences withinthe text and consultation of external sources.
Modern practice in Italian texts contracts (removes the space from)vowel elisions, for example l'anno not l' anno, ch'io not ch' io.This book, in common with some similar English books of the time, hasa space in these elisions in the original text. This space has beenretained in the etext. The only exceptions, in both the text andetext, are in French names and phrases, such as d'Aquino and d'Anjou.
More details can be found at the end of the book.
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
FREDERIC UVEDALE. A Romance. 1901.
STUDIES IN THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS. 1902.
ITALY AND THE ITALIANS. Second Edition. 1902.
THE CITIES OF UMBRIA. Third Edition. 1905.
THE CITIES OF SPAIN. Third Edition. 1906.
SIGISMONDO MALATESTA. 1906.
FLORENCE AND NORTHERN TUSCANY. Second Edition. 1907.
COUNTRY WALKS ABOUT FLORENCE. 1908.
IN UNKNOWN TUSCANY. 1909.
EDITED BY EDWARD HUTTON
MEMOIRS OF THE DUKES OF URBINO.
By James Dennistoun of Dennistoun.Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature ofItaly, from 1440 to 1630. New Edition,with upwards of 100 Illustrations. 3 vols.Demy 8vo. 1908.
CROWE AND CAVALCASELLE'S A NEW HISTORY OF PAINTING IN ITALY.
3 vols. 8vo. 1908-9.
Traditional Portraits of Boccaccio & Fiammetta (Maria d'Aquino)
From the Frescoes in the Spanish Chapel of S. Maria Novella, Florence.
GIOVANNI
BOCCACCIO
A BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY
BY EDWARD HUTTON
WITH PHOTOGRAVURE FRONTISPIECE
& NUMEROUS OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS
But if the love that hath and still doth burn me
No love at length return me,
Out of my thoughts I'll set her:
Heart let her go, O heart I pray thee let her!
Say shall she go?
O no, no, no, no, no!
Fix'd in the heart, how can the heart forget her.
LONDON: JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD
NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY MCMX
PLYMOUTH: WM. BRENDON AND SON, LTD., PRINTERS
TO MY FRIEND
J. L. GARVIN
THIS STUDY OF AN HEROIC LIFE