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Executores autem dicti testamenti reliquit, fecit et esse voluit fratrem Martinum de Signa predictum, Barducium Cherichini, Franciscum Lapi Bonamichi Angelum Turini Bencivenni, Jacobum Bocchacii cives Florentinos et majorem partem ipsorum superviventum ex eis, dans et concedens dictus testator dictis suis executoribus et majori parti ipsorum non obstantibus omnibus supradictis plenam baliam et liberam potestatem de bonis dicti testatoris pro hujusmodi executione sequenda et adimplenda vendendi et alienandi et pretium recipiendi et confitendi et de evictione bonorum vendendorum promictendi tenutam et corporalem possessionem dandi et tradendi jura et actiones dandi et vendendi et quamlibet quantitatem pecunie petendi et recipiendi et finem et remissionem de receptis faciendi, et si opus fuerit coram quibuscumque rogandi, agendi et defendendi, et omnia faciendi quæ sub agere et causari nomine et principaliter ordinaverit et omnia alia faciendi quæ in predictis fuerint opportuna. Et hanc suam ultimam voluntatem asseruit esse velle, quam valere voluit jure testamenti, quod si jure testamenti non valeret, seu non valebit, valeat et valebit, et ea omnia valere jussit et voluit jure codicillorum, et cujuscumque alterius ultime voluntatis, quo et quibus magis valere et tenere potest, seu poterit, cassans, irritans et annullans omne aliud testamentum, et ultimam voluntatem actenus per eum conditum, non obstantibus aliquibus verbis derogationis inscriptis in illo vel illis, quorum omni etiam derogatione idem testator asseruit se penitere, et voluit hoc presens testamentum et ultimam voluntatem prevalere omnibus aliis testamentis, actenus per eum conditis, quo et quibus magis et melius valere et tenere potest seu poterit.        *       *       *       *       * Ego Tinellus filius olim ser Bonasere de Pasignano, civis fiorentinus, imperiali auctoritate judex ordinarius et notarius publicus predictis omnibus dum agerentur interfui, et ea rogatus scripsi et publicavi, in quorum etc. me subscripsi. APPENDIX VI ENGLISH WORKS ON BOCCACCIO (_a_) BIOGRAPHY Creighton, M.   In _The Academy_, vol. i (London, 1875), p. 570. A review of   CORAZZINI: _Le Lettere edite e inedite_. Dubois, H.   Remarks on the Life and Writings of Boccaccio (London, 1804). Hewlett, Maurice.   Giovanni Boccaccio as Man and Author, in _The Academy_, vol. xlvi   (1894), pp. 469-70. Hutton, Edward.   Giovanni Boccaccio. Introduction to _The Decameron_ in _The Tudor   Translations_ (London, 1909). Hutton, Edward.   Country Walks about Florence (London, 1908).   Deals with the Casa di Boccaccio, Poggio Gherardo, and Villa   Palmieri. Landor, W. S.   The Pentameron, or Interviews of Messer Giovanni Boccaccio and   Messer Francesco Petrarca, etc. etc. (London). Cf. also _The   Quarterly Review_, vol. lxiv (1839), pp. 396-406. Owen, J.   The Skeptics of the Italian Renaissance (London, 1893), pp. 128-47. Preston, H. W., and Dodge, L.   Studies in the Correspondence of Petrarch, in _The Atlantic   Monthly_ (Boston, U.S.A.), vol. lxxii (1893), pp. 89, 284, and 395. Robinson, J. H., and Rolfe, H. W.   Petrarch, the First of Modern Scholars, etc. (New York and London,   Putnams, 1898).   A selection from his correspondence with Boccaccio and others. Ross, Janet.   A Stroll in Boccaccio's Country, in _National Review_, May, 1894,   pp. 364-71.   Deals with the country about Fiesole and Settignano, where   Boccaccio spent his earliest childhood. Symonds, J. A.   Giovanni Boccaccio as Man and Author (London, 1895).   This was, till the publication of the present work, the fullest   account of Boccaccio in English; but it is untrustworthy and   altogether unworthy of the author. Wilkins, E. H.   Calmeta, in _Modern Language Notes_, vol. xxi, no. 7.   Mr. Wilkins tries to identify Calmeta with Andalo di Negro. See   _supra_, p. 20. (_b_) WORKS Anon.   The Decameron of Boccaccio, in _The Edinburgh Review_ (1893). Anon.   Novels of the Italian Renaissance, in _The Edinburgh Review_ (1897). Anon.   Boccaccio as a Quarry, in _The Quarterly Review_, (1898), p. 188. Collier, J. P.   The History of Patient Grisel: two early tracts in black-letter,   with introd. and notes. _Publications of the Percy Society_, vol.   iii (London, 1842). Cotte, C.   An Old English Version of the Decameron, in _The Athenæum_ (1884),   no. 2954. Cunliffe, J. W.   Gismond of Salern. _Publications of the Modern Language Association   of America_, vol. xxi (1906), part 2.   This deals with the origins of Decameron, iv, 1. Dibdin, T. F.   The Bibliographical Decameron (London, 1817).   Deals with editions of the _Decameron_, the _Fiammetta_, and the   _Ameto_. Einstein, Lewis.   The Italian Renaissance in England (New York, 1902).   Deals with the influence of Boccaccio on English Renaissance   Literature. Garnett, R.   A History of Italian Literature (London, 1898).   Cap. vii deals with Boccaccio. Kuhns, O.   Dante and the English Poets from Chaucer to Tennyson (New York,   1904).   The author speaks also of Boccaccio. MacMechan, M.   The Relation of Hans Sachs to the Decameron (Halifax, 1889). Melhuish, W. F.   Boccaccio's "Genealogy of the Gods," in _The Bookworm_, (1890), pp.   125-8. Neilson, A. W.   The Origins and Sources of the Court of Love, in _Harvard Studies   and Notes in Philology and Literature_, vol. vi (1899). Neilson, A. W.   The Purgatory of Cruel Beauties: a Note on Decameron, v, 8, in   _Romania_, xxix, p. 85 _et seq._ (1900). Scott, F. N.   Boccaccio's "De Genealogia Deorum" and Sidney's _Apologie_, in   _Modern Language Notes_, vi (1891), part iv. Spingarn, J. E.   A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance (New York, 1899). Stillmann, W.   The Decameron and its Villas, in _The Nineteenth Century_, August,   1899. Symonds, J. A.   The Renaissance in Italy, vol. iv (Italian Literature), (London,   1881). Toynbee, Paget.   Benvenuto da Imola and the _Iliad_ and _Odyssey_, in _Romania_,   vol. xxix (1900), No. 115. Toynbee, Paget.   The Bibliography of Boccaccio's _Genealogia Deorum_, in _Athenæum_,   1899, No. 3733. Wagner, C. P.   The Sources of El Cavallero Cifar, in _Revue Hispanique_, vol. x   (1903), Nos. 33-4, p. 4 _et seq._ Wiltshire, W. H.   The master of the subjects in the _Bocace_ of 1476, in _Catalogue   of Early Prints in the Brit. Mus._, vol. ii, p. 113 _et seq._   (London, 1883). Woodbridge, E.   Boccaccio's Defence of Poetry as contained in Lib. XIV of the _De   Genealogia Deorum_, in _Pub. of the Mod. Lang. Assoc. of America_,   vol. xiii (1900), part 3. (_c_) BOCCACCIO AND DANTE Cook, A. S.   The Opening of Boccaccio's Life of Dante, in _Modern Language   Notes_, vol. xvii (1902), pp. 276-9. Dinsmore, C. A.   Aids to the Study of Dante (Boston, 1903). Cap. ii speaks of   Boccaccio's life of Dante. Moore, E.   Dante and his Early Biographers (London, 1890). Cap. ii deals with   the _Life_ and lives attributed to Boccaccio, pp. 4-5. Smith, T. R.   The Earliest Lives of Dante, translated from the Italian of   Giovanni Boccaccio and Leonardo Bruni Aretino (New York, 1901). Toynbee, P.   Boccaccio's Commentary on the _Divina Commedia_, in _Mod. Lang.   Rev._ (Cambridge, 1907), vol. ii, p. 97 _et seq._ Wicksteed, P. H.   The Early Lives of Dante (London, 1907). Witte, K.   The Two Versions of Boccaccio's _Life of Dante_, in _Essays on   Dante_, etc., p. 262 _et seq._ (London, 1898). APPENDIX VII BOCCACCIO AND CHAUCER AND SHAKESPEARE (_a_) BOCCACCIO AND CHAUCER The standard histories, e.g. _Cambridge History of English Literature_; Jusserand, _Histoire Litteraire du Peuple Anglaise_; and Ten Brink, _English Literature_, I have not mentioned. ENGLISH WORKS Axon, W. E. A.   Italian Influence on Chaucer. In _Chaucer Memorial Lectures_   (London, Asher, 1900). Bryant, A.   Did Boccaccio Suggest the Character of Chaucer's Knight? In _Modern   Language Notes_, vol. xvii (1902), part 8. Buchheim, C. A.   Chaucer's _Clerke's Tale_ and Petrarch's Version of the Griselda   Story. In _Athenæum_, 1894, No. 3470, p. 541 _et seq._ Child, C. G.   Chaucer's _House of Fame_, and Boccaccio's _Amorosa Visione_. In   _Modern Language Notes_, vol. x (1895), part 6, pp. 190-2. Child, C. G.   Chaucer's _Legend of Good Women_ and Boccaccio's _De Genealogia   Deorum_. In _Modern Language Notes_, vol. xi (1896). Clerke, E. M.   Boccaccio and Chaucer. In _National Review_, vol. viii (1886), p.   379. Hamilton, G. L.   The Indebtedness of Chaucer's _Troilus and Criseyde_ to Guido   delle Colonne's _Historia Troiana_ (New York, 1903). Speaks of the   _Filostrato_. Hammond, E. P.   Chaucer: a Bibliographical Manual (New York, 1908). This is a   splendid piece of work. For Chaucer and Boccaccio, see pp. 80-81,   151-2, 270-3, 305-7, 398-9, 486-7. Jusserand, J. J.   Did Chaucer meet Petrarch? In _The Nineteenth Century_, No. 232   (1899), pp. 993-1005. Ker, W. P.   Essays in Mediæval Literature (London, 1906). Koch, Johann.   Essays on Chaucer, pp. 357-417 (1878). Launsbury, Thos.   Studies in Chaucer, his Life and Writings, p. 235 (London, 1892). Lowes, J. L.   The Prologue of the _Legend of Good Women_ considered in   Chronological Relation.   _Publications of Mod. Lang. Ass. of America_, vol. xx (1906). Mather, A.   Chaucer in Italy. In _Modern Language Notes_, vol. xi (1896). Ogle, G.   Gualtherus and Griselda, or The Clerke of Oxford's Tale, from   Boccace, Petrarch, and Chaucer (Bristol, 1739). Palgrave, F. T.   Chaucer and the Italian Renaissance. In _The Nineteenth Century_,   vol. xxiv (1838), pp. 350-9. Rossetti, W. M.   Chaucer's _Troylus and Criseyde_ (from Harl. M.S., 3943), compared   with Boccaccio's _Filostrato_. Chaucer Society (Trubner), part 1,   1875--part 2, 1883. Tatlock, J.   Chaucer's _Vitremyte_. In _Modern Language Notes_, vol. xxi (1906),   p. 62. Tatlock, J.   The Dates of Chaucer's _Troilus and Criseyde_. In _Modern   Philology_ (Chicago, 1903). Ward, A. W.   _Chaucer_, (London, 1879), p. 166. FOREIGN WORKS Ballmann, O.   Chaucers einfluss auf das englische drama im Zeitalter der Konigen   Elisabeth und der beiden ersten Stuart-Konige. In _Anglia,   Zeitschrift fur Eng. Philologie_, xxv (1902), p. 2 ET SEQ. Bellezza, P.   Introduzione allo studio de' fonti italiani di G. Chaucer, etc.   (Milano, 1895). Chiarini, C.   Dalle "Novelle di Canterbury" di G. Chaucer (Bologna, 1897). Chiarini, C.   Intorno alle "Novelle di Canterbury" di G. Chaucer. In _Nuova   Antologia_, vol. lxxii (1897), fasc. 21, p. 148, and fasc. 22, p.   325. Demogoet, J.   Histoire des litteratures etrangeres considerees dans leurs   rapports avec le developpement de la litterature francaise.   Litteratures Meridionales. Italie-Espagne (Hachette, 1880). See   cap. vi. Engel, E.   Geschichte der englischen Litteratur von ihren Anfangen bis auf   die neueste Zeit mit einem Anhange: Die amerikanische Litteratur   (Leipzig, 1883).   Vol. iv of the _Geschichte der Weltlitteratur in   Einzeldarstellung_. At pp. 54-76, Boccaccio and Chaucer are spoken   of; at p. 133, Boccaccio and Sackville; at p. 263, Boccaccio and   Dryden, etc. Fischer, R.   Zu den Kunstformen des mittelalterlichen Epos. Hartmann's Iwein,   Das Nibelungenlied, Boccaccio's Filostrato und Chaucer's _Troylus   und Cryseide_. In _Weiner Beitrage zur Englischen Philologie_, vol.   ix (1898). Hortis, A.   Studj sulle opere Latine di Gio. Boccaccio con particolare riguardo   alla storia dell' erudizione nel medioevo e alle litterature   straniere (Trieste, 1879). Kissner, A.   Chaucer in seinen Beziehungen zur italienischen Litteratur (Bonn,   1867).   This is the only general study of Chaucer's indebtedness to Italy. Koch, T.   Chaucer Schriften. In _Englische Studien_, vol. xxxvi (1905), part   i, pp. 131-49. Koch, J.   Ein Beitrag zur Kritik Chaucers. In _Englische Studien_, vol. i   (1877), pp. 249-93. Koeppel, Emil.   Boccaccio's _Amorosa Visione_. In _Anglia_ (under Chauceriana),   vol. xiv (1892), pp. 233-8. Landau, Marc.   Beitrage zur Geschichte der italienischen Novelle (Vienna, 1875).   Especially iv, 5. Mounier, M.   La Renaissance de Dante a Luther (Paris, 1884).   See p. 183 _et seq._ for Boccaccio and Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dryden. Rajna, P.   Le origini della novella narrata dal "Frankeleyn" nei Canterbury   Tales del Chaucer. In _Romania_, xxxii (1903), pp. 204-67.   Refers to _Decameron_, v, 5. Segre, C.   Chaucer e Boccaccio. In _Fanfulla della Domenica_, vol. xxii   (1900), p. 47. Segre, C.   Studi petrarcheschi (Firenze, 1903). Torraca, F.   Un passo oscuro di G. Chaucer. In _Journal of Comparative   Literature_, vol. i (1903). Von Wlislocki, H.   Vergleichende Beitrage zu Chaucers Canterbury-Geschichten. In   _Zeitschrift fur vergleichende Litteraturgeschichte und Ren.   Litt._, N.S., ii (1889), pp. 182-99. Willert, H.   G. Chaucer, _The House of Fame_. Text, Varianten, Ammerkungen,   Progr. Ostern., 1888 (Berlin, 1888).   For the _Amorosa Visione_ and Chaucer. (_b_) BOCCACCIO AND SHAKESPEARE See also under Chaucer. Chiarini, G.   Le fonti del mercante di Venezia. In _Studi Shakespeariani_   (Livorno, 1897).   Concerned with Gower and Shakespeare, _Decameron_, x, 1. Koeppel, E.   Studien zur Geschichte der italienischen Novelle in der Englischen   Litteratur des sechzehnten Jahrhunderst (Strassburg, 1892).   This is vol. lxx of the _Quellen und Forschungen zur Sprach und   Culturgeschichte der Germanischen Volker_. A most important study   of the English versions of the _Decameron_. Leonhardt, B.   Zu Cymbelin. In _Anglia_, vii (1884), fasc. iii. Levi, A. R.   Shakespeare e la parodia omerica. In _Nuova Rassegna di Lett.   Mod._, vol. iv (1906), fasc. 2, pp. 113-16.   Concerning the _Filostrato_. Levy, S.   Zu Cymbelin. In _Anglia_, vii (1884), p. 120 _et seq._   S. Levy contends that _Decameron_, ii, 9 is the source of   _Cymbeline_. B. Leonhardt denies it. Mascetta-Caracci, L.   Shakespeare e i classici italiani a proposito di un sonetto di   Guido Guinizzelli (Lanciano, 1902). Ohle, R.   Shakespeares Cymbeline, und seine romanischen Vorlaufer (Berlin,   1890). P[aris], G.   Une version orientale du theme de "All's well that ends well." In   _Romania_, vol. xvi (1887), p. 98 _et seq._ Segre, C.   Un' eroina del B. e l' "Elena," Shakespeariana.   In _Fanfulla della Domenica_, vol. xxiii (1901), p. 16.   Compares "All's well that ends well" with _Decameron_, iii, 9. Siefken, O.   Der Konstanze-Griseldetypus in der englischen Litteratur bis auf   Shakespeare (Ruthenow, 1904).   For _Decameron_, x, 10. APPENDIX VIII SYNOPSIS OF THE _DECAMERON_ TOGETHER WITH SOME WORKS TO BE CONSULTED GENERAL:   MANNI, D. M. _Istoria del Decameron_ (Firenze, 1742).   BOTTARI, G. _Lezioni sopra il Decameron_ (Firenze, 1818).   MASSARINI, T. _Storia e fisiologia dell' arte di ridere_ (Milan,   1901), vol. ii. CONCERNING SEVERAL TALES:   DI FRANCIA, L. _Alcune novelle del Decameron_, in _Giornale Stor.   della Lett. Ital._, vol. xliv (1904).   Treats of i, 2; iv, 2; v, 10; vii, 2; vii, 4; vii, 6; viii, 10; x,   8.   ZUMBINI, B. _Alcune novelle del B. e i suoi criterii d' arte_, in   _Atti della R. Acc. della Crusca_ (Firenze, 1905).   Treats of ii, 4; ii, 5; ii, 6; iii, 6; iv, 1; iv, 10; v, 6; vii, 2;   x, 6. PROEM   _Here begins the first day of the Decameron, on which, after it has   been shown by the author how the persons mentioned came together to   relate these stories, each one, under the presidency of Pampinea,   related some amusing matter that they could think of._ The Proem is divided into two parts in the best editions. The first part having for title: "Here begins the book called Decameron, otherwise Prince Galeotto, wherein are combined one hundred novels told in ten days by seven ladies and three young men." In the second part the irony against the clergy is obvious. For the Palace in which the gathering takes place see G. MANCINI, _Poggio Gherardi, primo ricetto alle Novellatrici del B._ (Firenze, Cellini, 1858), and W. STILLMAN, _The Decameron and its Villas_, in _The Nineteenth Century_, August, 1899, and N. MASELLIS, _I due palagi di rifugio e la valle delle donne nel Decameron_ in _Rassegna Nazionale_, June 16, 1904, and JANET ROSS, _Florentine Villas_ (Dent, 1903), and EDWARD HUTTON, _Country Walks about Florence_ (Methuen, 1908), cap. i. THE FIRST DAY PAMPINEA QUEEN _Subject of Tales._--Various. NOVEL I BY PAMFILO   _Ciappelletto deceives a holy friar by a sham confession, and dies;   and although he was an arch-rogue during his life, yet he was   regarded as a saint after his death, and called San Ciappelletto._ Against the Friars. For a Latin version of this tale consult G. DA SCHIO, _Sulla vita e sugli scritti di Antonio Loschi_ (Padova, 1858), p. 145. For some interesting documents see C. PAOLI, _Documenti di Ser Ciappelletto_, in _Giornale St. d. Lett It._, vol. v (1885), p. 329. G. FINZI, _La novella boccaccesca di Ser Ciappelletto_, in _Bib. d. scuole it._, vol. iii (1891), p. 105 _et seq._, is a good comment. And SILVIO PELLINI, _Una novella del Decameron_ (Torino, 1887), gives us a reprint from the Basle edition of 1570 of the Latin translation of Olimpia Morata. NOVEL II BY NEIFILE   _Abraham the Jew went to Rome at the instigation of Jehannot de   Chevigny, and seeing the wicked manner of life of the clergy there,   he returned to Paris and became a Christian._ Against the clergy. B. ZUMBINI, in _Studi di Lett. Straniere_ (Firenze, 1893), p. 185 _et seq._, compares this novel with Lessing's _Nathan der Weise_. P. TOLDO, in _Giornale St. d. Lett. Ital._, xlii (1903), p. 335 _et seq._, finds here a Provencal story. L. DI FRANCIA, in _Giornale, sup._, xliv (1904), examines the origins with much care. J. BONNET, _Vie d'Olympia Morata_ (Paris, 1851), cap. ii, p. 53, speaks of the Morata translation of this novel and of _Decameron_, x, 10. NOVEL III BY FILOMENA   _The Jew Melchisedec escapes from a trap which Saladin laid for   him, by telling him a story about three rings._ Appeared in PAINTER'S _Palace of Pleasure_, vol. i (1566), No. 30. See G. TARGIONI-TOZZETTI, _Novelletta del Mago e del giudeo_ (Ferrara, 1869). L. CAPPELLETTI, _Commento sopra la 3a novella della prima giornata del Dec._ (Bologna, 1874). A. TOBLER, _Li dis dou vrai aniel. Die Parabel von dem achten Ringe franzosische Dichtung des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts_ (Leipzig, 1884). G. PARIS, _La poesie du moyen age_, 2^e serie (Paris, 1903), No. 12. _La parabole des trois anneaux._ G. BERTINO, _Le diverse redazioni della Novella dei tre anelli_, in _Spigolature Letterarie_ (Sassari, Scano, 1903). T. GIANNONE, _Una novella del B. e un dramma del Lessing_ (Nathan the Wise), in _Rivista Abruzzese_, xv (1900), p. 32 _et seq._ NOVEL IV BY DIONEO   _A monk who had incurred a severe punishment for an offence that he   had committed, saved himself from it by convicting his abbot of the   same fault._ Against the Monks. See J. BEDIER, _Les fabliaux etudes de litterature populaire et d'histoire litteraire du moyen age_ (Paris, 1893). NOVEL V BY FIAMMETTA   _The Marchioness of Monferrat cures the King of France of his   senseless passion by means of a repast of hens and by a few   suitable words._ Appeared in PAINTER'S _Palace of Pleasure_, ii (1567), No. 16. For sources see S. PRATO, _L' orma del leone, racconto orientale considerato nella tradizione popolare_, in _Romania_, xii (1883), p. 535 _et seq._ NOVEL VI BY EMILIA   _An honest layman, by means of a fortunate jest, reproves the   hypocrisy of the clergy._ Against the clergy. See V. ROSSI, in _Dai tempi antichi ai tempi moderni; da Dante al Leopardi_ (Milano, 1904). Una novella boccaccesca in azione nel secolo xv, p. 419 _et seq._ NOVEL VII BY FILOSTRATO   _Bergamino reproves Messer Cane della Scala in a very clever   manner, by the story of Primasso and the Abbot of Cluny._ See P. RAJNA, _Intorno al cosidetto "Dialogus creaturarum" ed al suo autore_, in _Giornale Stor. d. Lett. Ital._, x (1887), p. 50 _et seq._ NOVEL VIII BY LAURETTA   _By a few witty words Guglielmo Borsiere overcomes the covetousness   of Ermino de' Grimaldi._ Appeared in PAINTER'S _Palace of Pleasure_, vol. i (1566), No. 31. NOVEL IX BY ELISA   _The King of Cyprus, being reproved by a lady of Gascony, from   being indolent and worthless becomes a virtuous prince._ NOVEL X BY PAMPINEA   _Messer Alberto of Bologna modestly puts a lady to the blush, who   wished to do the same by him, as she thought that he was in love   with her._ Appeared in PAINTER'S _Palace of Pleasure_, vol. i (1566), No. 32.