The Merchant of VeniceHarvard University Press, 1966 - 174 pages |
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Page xxviii
... story of wooing had been added to that of the flesh - bond . " But the version which is closest to The Merchant of Venice is the first story of the fourth day in Ser Giovanni's Il Pecorone . This col- lection of tales was written in ...
... story of wooing had been added to that of the flesh - bond . " But the version which is closest to The Merchant of Venice is the first story of the fourth day in Ser Giovanni's Il Pecorone . This col- lection of tales was written in ...
Page xxxii
... stories from the Gesta Romanorum was printed in an English translation by Richard Robinson in 15 [ 7 ] 7 and again in 1595 ; the story of the flesh - bond was not included , but a version of the casket story was , and of the sixteenth ...
... stories from the Gesta Romanorum was printed in an English translation by Richard Robinson in 15 [ 7 ] 7 and again in 1595 ; the story of the flesh - bond was not included , but a version of the casket story was , and of the sixteenth ...
Page xlvii
... story for the wooing of Il Pecorone . The original lady of Belmonte was a widow who had ruined many gentlemen , but Portia , like the King's daughter in the Gesta Romanorum , is the heroine of a romance story ; she is fair , noble ...
... story for the wooing of Il Pecorone . The original lady of Belmonte was a widow who had ruined many gentlemen , but Portia , like the King's daughter in the Gesta Romanorum , is the heroine of a romance story ; she is fair , noble ...
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