Giovanni Boccaccio: The Most Pleasant and Delectable Questions of Love. Джованни Боккаччо

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      Table of Contents

       Analytical Contents

       Dedication

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

       Chapter 5

       Chapter 6

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

      The Booke to the Reader

      Loke ere thou leap, dome not by view of face, Least hast make wast, in misdoming the case: For I teach not to love, ne yet his lore, Ne with what salve is cared such a sore, But I the carke with cares that therby haps, The blis with joyes the storms with thunderclaps, The curtesies where most his force is shewede, The choise of best, be it of good or lewde, Compare them so, as doomed is the dout, Thereof, and ay the truth well sifted out: The which to reade such pleasure thou shalt finde, As may content a well disposed minde.

Analytical Contents

       Table of Contents

       DEDICATION

       CHAPTER ONE

      The Argument

       CHAPTER TWO

      The First Question, Proposed by Philocpo. A young woman, asked to show which of two lovers she loves the more, each of whom claims to be the favoured one, places on the head of one her own garland, and taking from the other that which he wears, wears it herself. To which did she show the more favour?

       CHAPTER THREE

      The Second Question, proposed by Parmenio. A young gentleman in love with a young maiden takes as a go-between an old, wrinkled beggar-woman. She contrives to bring him to the maiden but all are taken together by the brothers of the maid, who condemn the young gentleman to stay both with their sister and the old woman each for a year and to have converse precisely alike with each. Only he may choose which he will take first and which last. Then which should he have taken for the first year?

       CHAPTER FOUR

      The Third Question, proposed by a young gentlewoman. To which of three aspirants should a lady give her preference, to him who excels in valour, or to him who is most courteous and liberal, or to him who is wisest?

       CHAPTER FIVE

      The Fourth Question, proposed by Menedon. A story in which the question has to be resolved which of three persons, the husband, the lover or the magician has behaved most generously.

       CHAPTER SIX

      The Fifth Question, Proposed by Clonico. Which is the more unhappy, a lover who cannot obtain the favour of his mistress, or he who having obtained it has reason for jealousy.

       CHAPTER SEVEN

      The Sixth Question, proposed by a young gentlewoman. Two maidens in love with the same youth wish to induce him to choose between them. Agreed on this, one runs to him, embraces and kisses him; the other cannot but remains apart all shy and shameful. Which loved him better and more deserved his love?

       CHAPTER EIGHT

      The Seventh Question, proposed by Caleone. Is love a good or an evil? It is in this Question that Galeon, or, as the better reading is, Caleon, in a charming ballad, explains the sense of the name Fiammetta.

       CHAPTER NINE

      The Eighth Question, proposed by a young gentlewoman named Paola. Of two women whom he likes equally, ought a young man to prefer her who is superior to him by noble birth and parentage and riches, or her who is inferior to him in all these things? Fiammeta, who answers this question by saying that a young man should prefer her who is superior in birth and station, was of course herself in this position in regard to Boccaccio.

       CHAPTER TEN

      The Ninth Question, proposed by Feramonte, Duke of Montorio. Which is it better that a young man should fall in love with, a maiden, a СКАЧАТЬ