by John Payne (Translator), Giovanni Boccaccio (Author)
As often, most gracious ladies, as, taking thought in myself, I mind me how very pitiful you are all by nature, so often do I recognize that this present work will, to your thinking, have a grievous and a weariful beginning, inasmuch as the dolorous remembrance of the late pestiferous mortality, which it beareth on its forefront, is universally irksome to all who saw or otherwise knew it. But I would not therefore have this affright you from reading further, as if in the reading you were still to fare among sighs and tears.
Number of Pages: 256
Dimensions: 0.54 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN
Publication Date: July 03, 2017