ABSTRACT
[As far as the writer of the following story is acquainted with the history of the persons mentioned in it, there is no actual foundation for its details. But he seems to have read somewhere, within these few years, a tale in verse, 1 the recollection of which may have suggested it to him. And he believes, also, that Mde. de. Genlis, 2 in her half historical romance of ‘Petrarque and Laure,’ has imagined a passion between Boccaccio and the daughter of king Robert of Naples.]
