[632] Cf. Comento, I, 333-4.
[633] Cf. Comento, I, 397-402. See Paget Toynbee, op. cit., pp. 118-19. He notes that Boccaccio "nowhere employs the title Annals ... but uses the term storie ... even when he is quoting from the Annals" as in Comento, I, 400. He seems to have made no use of the Histories in his Comento.
[634] As to this see Paget Toynbee, op. cit., p. 105.
[635] Eight times in all. Besides these quotations he uses him freely.
[636] Cf. Paget Toynbee, op. cit., 110. All trace of Boccaccio's own MS. about which there was the lawsuit has vanished.
[637] Cf. Milanesi, Comento, Vol. I, p. v.
[638] At Naples (imprint Florence), two vols., 1724, in Opere Volgari in Prosa del Boccaccio, published by Lorenzo Ciccarelli (Cellurio Zacclori).
[639] In Opere Volgari (1827-34, Florence, Magheri), Vols. X, XI, XII.
[640] Rime, ed. cit., cviii. (Rossetti's translation).
[641] Cf. Corazzini, op. cit., p. 281. The disease which Boccaccio thus describes has been thought to be a form of diabetes. Cf. Cochin, Études Italiennes Boccace, p. 167, n. 1. Petrarch too suffered from la scabbia.