Women of the Romance Countries (Illustrated) / Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 6 (of 10)

by John R. Effinger

JOHN R. EFFINGER, Ph.D.

OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

BOCCACCIO'S MERRY RACONTEURS
After the painting by Jacques Wagrez

In the meantime, Naples, in the hands of the invaders, had been stained with blood, and then ravaged by the great plague of which Boccaccio has given us a picture, and of the idyllic way the rich people passed their time, in his Decameron.