[662] See my Country Walks about Florence (Methuen, 1908), p. 23 et seq. The place has been drained to-day, and is now a garden of vines and olives in the podere of Villa Ciliegio belonging to A. W. Benn, Esq., whose kindness and courtesy in permitting me to see the place I wish here to acknowledge.
[663] Cf. Manni, Istoria del Decamerone (Firenze, 1742); Bartoli, I precursi del B. (Firenze, 1876); Landau, Die Quellen des Dekam. (Stuttgart, 1884); Cappelletti, Osserv. e notiz. sulle fonti del Decam. (Livorno, 1891).
[664] No doubt most of these stories were current up and down Italy.
[665] As with Shakespeare so with Boccaccio, the religious temperament is not represented.
[666] Pinelli, La moralità nel Decam. in Propugnatore (1882), xv and xvi; also Dejob, A propos de la partie honnête du Décam. in Revue Universitaire (July 15, 1900).
[667] See [Appendix VIII, p. 367] et seq.
[668] Decameron, V, 10.
[669] Ibid., VII, 2.
[670] Ibid., VII, 8.
[671] Ibid., VII, 7.