Filostrato, parte ii. strofe 74.
[129] Fiammetta, ed. cit., p. 102. She thought poorly of marriage, consoling herself when her lover marries by saying: "tutti coloro che moglie prendono, e che l' hanno, l' amino siccome fanno dell' altre donne: la soperchia copia, che le mogli fanno di sè a' loro mariti, è cagion di tostano rincrescimento, quando esse pur nel principio sommamente piacessero ..." (Fiammetta, ed. cit., pp. 69-70).
[130] Crescini, op. cit., pp. 127 and 130, note 2.
[131] Crescini, op. cit.
[132] Della Torre, op. cit., p. 192 et seq.
[133] In his Tabula ad situandos et concordandos menses cum signis in dorso astrolabii in Atti della soc. Ligure di Stor. Pat. (1892), Vol. XXV, p. 59.
[134] Crescini thinks (op. cit.) that Boccaccio first saw Fiammetta on 11th April, 1338. Supposing, then, the date most favourable to him, to wit, that Boccaccio possessed Fiammetta in the night of 17-18 October: 135 days before that was 3rd June, and twenty-four before that was 10th May (twelve days before was 22nd May), not 11th April. Suppose we take our own date, 30th March, we are in worse case still. It seems then certain that between these two periods of 12 and 135 days there was an interval. To decide on its length is the difficulty.
[135] Amorosa Visione, cap. xlv.
[136] Ibid., cap. xlvi.
[137] Cf. Filocolo, ed. cit., II, pp. 261-2.