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2023-04-02

Llueve y llueve y llueve...
Miniatura del folio 133r del manuscrito de John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes (La caída de los Príncipes, traducción del "De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium" de Giovanni Boccaccio, Biblioteca Británica Harley MS 1766. Abro hilo🧵1/5 ⬇️⬇️

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2023-01-17

Here Boccaccio gazes at Fortune turning her wheel

BL Harley 621; Giovanni Boccaccio, Du Cas des Nobles Hommes et Femmes ( De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium); France; 3rd quarter of the 15th century; f.217r

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2022-01-15

The adventures of Hercules!

BL Harley MS 1766; c 1450-c 1460; John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes (based on Giovanni Boccaccio, De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium); Suffolk (possibly Bury St Edmunds);
ff.65r, 69r, 70r

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2021-04-14

Boccaccio watching Fortune turn her wheel

BL Harley 621; Giovanni Boccaccio, Du Cas des Nobles Hommes et Femmes ( De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium) translated by Laurent de Premierfait; France; 3rd quarter of the 15th century; f.217r

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2021-02-14

Amor può troppo più che né voi né io possiamo.

- Giovanni Boccaccio, dal Decameron (IV giornata, novella I)



Decameron

👨‍🎨 John William Waterhouse



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2020-04-21

The Epicurean philosopher Leonce (Leontion) trying to read philosophy while being embraced. History treated her harshly for daring to criticise Theophrastus.
Royal 16 G V; Giovanni Boccaccio, De claris mulieribus in a French translation; France, N.; c.1440; f.74r

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2020-01-12

Just added 6 concerning to our website. Read here:
https://t.co/B2Fz7wNLaN

Authors incl. Pius V and Filippo Arena. Illustration from Arena's "La natura, e coltura de' fiori fisicamente esposta" (1767-8):

https://t.co/kn9APbFnap

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2019-04-03