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Stories by 'Boccaccio, Giovanni'

The Story of Federigo’s Falcon (Fifth Day, Ninth Tale)

Boccaccio, Giovanni

March 23rd, 2005 · 14 Comments

Much as I would love to read the entire Decameron, and one day maybe I will (when the sound quality is improved to the point where I no longer sound like a podcastrati… and yes I am working on it!), for now, here’s enough of an excerpt to give you pleasantest of dreams of romance in the time of plague. Besides, it doesn’t get much more hypercritically metatextual, reading a bedtime story that is a bedtime story being read.

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