Quotes from Giovanni Boccaccio's books, and about them
A Room with a View on The Decameron: “Some critics believe that her garden was the scene of The Decameron, which lends it an additional interest, does it not?"”
Billy Budd on The Decameron: “some going to their neighbouring chambers to turn over the _Decameron_ ere retiring for the night”
Man and Wife on The Decameron: “Sir Patrick, deep in an old Venetian edition of The Decameron, found himself suddenly recalled from medieval Italy to modern England, by no less a person than Geoffrey Delamayn.”
Lent on The Decameron: “He hesitates over Boccaccio's Decameron, and a volume of Angelo's sonnets”
The Essays on The Decameron: “Amongst books that are simply pleasant, of the moderns, Boccaccio's Decameron, Rabelais, and the Basia of Johannes Secundus (if those may be ranged under the title) are worth reading for amusement.”
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire on The Decameron: “That popular writer, who derives his reputation from the Decameron, a hundred novels of pleasantry and love, may aspire to the more serious praise of restoring in Italy the study of the Greek language.”
Waverley on The Decameron: “sought gratification in the numerous collections of novelle, which were brought forth by the genius of that elegant though luxurious nation, in emulation of the 'Decameron.'”