History of Prose Fiction, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1888 |
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John Colin Dunlop. CONTENTS . CHAPTER VII . Origin of Italian tales - Fables of Bidpai - Seven Wise Masters- Gesta Romanorum - Contes et Fabliaux - Cento Novelle An- tiche - Decameron of Boccaccio CHAPTER VIII . Italian imitators of ...
John Colin Dunlop. CONTENTS . CHAPTER VII . Origin of Italian tales - Fables of Bidpai - Seven Wise Masters- Gesta Romanorum - Contes et Fabliaux - Cento Novelle An- tiche - Decameron of Boccaccio CHAPTER VIII . Italian imitators of ...
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John Colin Dunlop. HISTORY OF FICTION . CHAPTER VII . - SEVEN ORIGIN OF ITALIAN TALES . -FABLES OF BIDPAI . WISE ... Italy , which pro- duced the earliest and finest specimens of romantic poetry , should scarcely have furnished a single ...
John Colin Dunlop. HISTORY OF FICTION . CHAPTER VII . - SEVEN ORIGIN OF ITALIAN TALES . -FABLES OF BIDPAI . WISE ... Italy , which pro- duced the earliest and finest specimens of romantic poetry , should scarcely have furnished a single ...
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... Italians have produced no original prose work of any length or reputation in the romantic style of composition . This ... Italian novelists , that the manners of the people had not caught one spark of the fire of chivalry , which kindled ...
... Italians have produced no original prose work of any length or reputation in the romantic style of composition . This ... Italian novelists , that the manners of the people had not caught one spark of the fire of chivalry , which kindled ...
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... Italian republics , indeed , were not destitute of political firm- ness , but their martial spirit had forsaken them , and their liberties were confided to the protection of mercenary bands . Add to this , that at the time when France ...
... Italian republics , indeed , were not destitute of political firm- ness , but their martial spirit had forsaken them , and their liberties were confided to the protection of mercenary bands . Add to this , that at the time when France ...
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... Italian . The Italian translation was the work of the novelist Firenzuola , and was called Discorsi Degli Animali , and published 1548. A version in the same tongue , by Doni , was translated into English , under the name of the Moral ...
... Italian . The Italian translation was the work of the novelist Firenzuola , and was called Discorsi Degli Animali , and published 1548. A version in the same tongue , by Doni , was translated into English , under the name of the Moral ...
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Page 292 - As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den,* and laid me down in that place to sleep ; and as I slept, I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and behold, I saw a man clothed with rags standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back, Isa.