Author: Giovanni Boccaccio

Cited by

• Jane Smiley (1)
  • IN: Ten Days in the Hills (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: But a little after nones, they all went and refreshed their faces in cool water before assembling, at the queen's request, on the lawn near the fountain, where, having seated themselves in the customary manner, they began to await their turn to tell a story on the topic the queen had proposed.
    FROM: The Decameron, (1353), Book, Italy
• Janette Turner Hospital (1)
  • IN: Due Preparations for the Plague (2003) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Wherefore ... I think it would be excellently well done that we depart this place ... and betake ourselves quietly to other places in our thought ... and there take such diversion as we may.
    FROM: Decameron, (1353), Book, Italy