 | Giovanni Boccaccio - 1855 - 628 Seiten
...are the pages of which Shakespeare made so much use. From Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, we learn that one of the great amusements of our ancestors...stability to a mode of composition which before his iime had only existed in a rude state in Italy ; he collected the current tales of the age, which he... | |
 | Giovanni Boccaccio - 1881 - 550 Seiten
...are the pages of which Shakespeare made so much use. From Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, we learn that one of the great amusements of our ancestors...mode of composition which before his time had only existed in a rude state in Italy; he collected the current tales of the age, which he decorated with... | |
 | Giovanni Boccaccio - 1903 - 598 Seiten
...These are the pages of which Shakespeare made so much use. From Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy we learn that one of the great amusements of our ancestors...mode of composition which before his time had only existed in a rude state in Italy; he collected the current tales of the age, which he decorated with... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1906 - 462 Seiten
...Shakspeare made so much use. From Burton's ' Anatomy of Melancholy ' we learn that one of the greatest amusements of our ancestors was reading Boccaccio...speedily visible in the literature of the country. ... In France Boccaccio found early and illustrious imitators. In his own country he brought his native... | |
 | Delphian Society - 1911 - 594 Seiten
...Shakspeare made so much use. From Burton's ' Anatomy of Melancholy ' we learn that one of the greatest amusements of our ancestors was reading Boccaccio...speedily visible in the literature of the country. ... In France Boccaccio found early and illustrious imitators. In his own country he brought his native... | |
 | Charles Hamilton Hughes - 1905 - 570 Seiten
...Shakespeare made so much use. According to Burton§, one of the great amusements of the 17th century English was reading Boccaccio aloud; an entertainment of which the effects were speedily visible iu the literature of the country. The first English translation t HI story of Fiction. IPalaceof Pleasure.... | |
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English, in his work called the Palace of Pleasure. This first translation contained sixty novels, and it was soon followed by another volume, comprehending thirty-four additional tales. These are the pages of which Shakespeare made so much use. From... 