Bøker av Giovanni Boccaccio

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Here are some very loose renderings of stories by Chaucer and Boccaccio, which in my egomania I dare to exhibit with my own.A few of these I recite on YouTube, if that's to your taste.R

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Suole a' miseri crescere di dolersi vaghezza, quando di sé discernono o sentono compassione in alcuno. Adunque, acciò che in me, volonterosa più che altra a dolermi, di ciò per lunga usanza non menomi la cagione, ma s'avanzi, mi piace, o nobili donne, ne' cuori delle quali amore più che nel mio forse felicemente dimora, narrando i casi miei, di farvi, s'io posso, pietose. Né m'è cura perché il mio parlare agli uomini non pervenga, anzi, in quanto io posso, del tutto il niego loro, però che sì miseramente in me l'acerbità d'alcuno si discuopre, che gli altri simili imaginando, piuttosto schernevole riso che pietose lagrime ne vedrei. Voi sole, le quali io per me medesima conosco pieghevoli...