[1] This letter, written in 1373 and containing a Latin translation of Boccaccio's story of Griselda, is printed as a separate work in the Opera (1581), p. 540 sqq., but appears as Sen., xvii., 3, in Fracassetti's Italian version.
[2] The additions are so considerable that Fracassetti, in translating this letter into Italian, could make use of the words of Boccaccio's original in scarcely more than half of the tale.
[3] Petrarch's version of the tale is here omitted.
[4] Juvenal, xv., 131-3, as translated by William Gifford.
[5] The close of this letter is given above, pp. [53] sqq.
On the Italian Language and Literature
To Boccaccio[1]