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Giovanni Boccaccio
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Giovanni Boccaccio : Opere (vols I-IV (of 6))
[Marginalia]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
Giovanni Boccaccio : Il Decamerone
"[William and Dorothy Wordsworth] probably read [the Decameron] together as he tutored her in Italian [1796] ... " This "consistent" with W[ordsworth]'s remark in Nov. 1805 to Walter Scott (followed by reference to Fourth "Day" of the Decameron): "'It is many years since I saw Boccae ...' Later in the letter W[ordsworth] quotes Boccacio from memory, showing that he knew the Decameron well."
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William and Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book
Giovanni Boccaccio : [story of Fra Cipolla, from Decameron]
'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good stories - and the Little Hunchback in the Arabian Nights, which is still better. Read Nardi in the evening'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Giovanni Boccaccio : Decameron
'Reading once again the "Processi" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Giovanni Boccaccio : [possibly] Decameron
'read Bocaccio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Giovanni Boccaccio : Decameron
'read the Decameroni'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Giovanni Boccaccio : Decameron
'Finish the Decamerone'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Giovanni Boccaccio : [unknown]
'Read Beaumont & Fletcher - Dante and Lucan - S. reads the Greek tragedians and Boccacio [sic] [...] He reads Paradise Lost aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
Giovanni Boccaccio : [unknown]
'S. reads Bocaccio [sic] aloud - & Calderon with C.[harles] C.[lairmont]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
Giovanni Boccaccio : [unknown]
'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
Giovanni Boccaccio : [unknown]
'Read Sismondi - Ride to Pisa - Georgics - B.[occaccio]'
