| | 1 | Author: | Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Most Pleasant and Delectable Questions of Love / by Giovanni Boccaccio  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | FLORIO, surnamed Philocopo, accompanied with the
duke Montorio, Ascaleon, Menedon and Massalina,
in sailing to seek his friend Biancofiore, was through
a very obscure and dark night by the fierce winds driven into
great dangers. But the perils once passed, they were cast into
the port of the ancient Parthenope, whereas the mariners
(espying themselves in a haven) received comfort. Not
knowing into what coast fortune had forced him they yielded
thanks to the gods and so tarried the new day, the which
after it once appeared the place was of the mariners descried,
so that they all glad of suretie and of so acceptable arrival,
came ashore, Philocopo with his companions. Who rather
seemed to come forth new-risen again out of their
sepulchres than disbarked from ship, looked back towards the
wayward waters and repeating in themselves the passed
perils of the spent night, could yet scarcely think themselves
in suretie. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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