Giovanni Boccaccio, a Biographical Study
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cit., cviii. (Rossetti's translation).
CHAPTER XVII 1373-1375 ILLNESS AND DEATH THAT illness which brought those lectures on the Divine Comedy so swiftly to an end in the winter of 1 373 was no new thing ; for long, as we have seen, Boccaccio had had a troubled spirit. If he had recovered from his grief at the death of Fiammetta, he had never wholly been himself since his conversion. The disease which then declared itself was no new thing. In his versatile and athletic spirit there had always b...een a strain of melancholy that had shown itself even in his earliest childhood, when he imagined he was persecuted ; on his arrival in Naples as a boy, when only a kiss could restore his confidence ; in the long years of his troubled and unstable love and in the loneliness of his manhood ; with old age at his elbow it needed but little for his spirit, so easily joyful, to be lost in a strange darkness.
Already before he had been appointed to that lecture- ship in Florence he had felt himself seriously ill.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
cit., cviii. (Rossetti's translation).
CHAPTER XVII 1373-1375 ILLNESS AND DEATH THAT illness which brought those lectures on the Divine Comedy so swiftly to an end in the winter of 1 373 was no new thing ; for long, as we have seen, Boccaccio had had a troubled spirit. If he had recovered from his grief at the death of Fiammetta, he had never wholly been himself since his conversion. The disease which then declared itself was no new thing. In his versatile and athletic spirit there had always b...een a strain of melancholy that had shown itself even in his earliest childhood, when he imagined he was persecuted ; on his arrival in Naples as a boy, when only a kiss could restore his confidence ; in the long years of his troubled and unstable love and in the loneliness of his manhood ; with old age at his elbow it needed but little for his spirit, so easily joyful, to be lost in a strange darkness.
Already before he had been appointed to that lecture- ship in Florence he had felt himself seriously ill.
What to read after Giovanni Boccaccio, a Biographical Study?
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