FOOTNOTES
[1] i.e. those not in love.
[2] Syn. adventures (casi).
[3] i.e. the few pages of which he speaks above.
[4] Syn. provisions made or means taken (consigli dati). Boccaccio constantly uses consiglio in this latter sense.
[5] Syn. help, remedy.
[6] Accidente, what a modern physician would call "complication." "Symptom" does not express the whole meaning of the Italian word.
[7] i.e. aromatic drugs.
[8] i.e. gravediggers (becchini).
[9] Lit. four or six. This is the equivalent Italian idiom.