TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
Italic text is denoted by underscores. Superscripts are denoted by ^ eg xvj^o.
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the 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, has a space in these elisions in the original text. This space has been retained in the etext. The only exceptions, in both the text and etext, 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 of Italy, 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.
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