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Title: The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

Author: Giovanni Boccaccio

Translator: John Payne

Release Date: December 3, 2007 [EBook #23700]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

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[Transcriber's Note: The original text does not observe the normal convention of placing quotation marks at the beginnings of paragraphs within a multiple-paragraph quotation. This idiosyncrasy has been preserved in this e-text.

Archaic spellings have been preserved, but obvious printer errors have been corrected.

In the untranslated Italian passage in Day 3, Story 10, the original is missing the accents, which have been added using an Italian edition of Decameron (Milan: Mursia, 1977) as a guide.

John Payne's translation of The Decameron was originally published in a private printing for The Villon Society, London, 1886. The American edition from which this e-text was prepared is undated.]

The

Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio

Translated by

John Payne

[Illustration]

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