The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
- ISBN-10
- 1465512616
- ISBN-13
- 9781465512611
- Series
- The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
- Category
- Plague
- Pages
- 307
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1895
- Publisher
- Library of Alexandria
- Author
- Giovanni Boccaccio
Description
This confusion of persons constantly occurs in Boccaccio, especially in the conversational parts of the Decameron, in which he makes the freest use of the various forms of enallage and of other rhetorical figures, such as hyperbaton, ...
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