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Decameron 61<br />

33. Lynn Th orndike, A History of Magic and Experimental Science,<br />

1 (New York: Th e Macmillan Co., 1923), pp. 566–615. Cf. also<br />

A. J. Festugiere, Hermétisme et mystique paíenne (Paris: Aubier,<br />

1967), pp. 141–180.<br />

34. “Hypocrita Graeco sermone in Latino simulator interpretatur<br />

. . . Nomen autem hypocritae tractum est ab specie eorum qui<br />

in spectaculis contecta facie incedunt, distinguentes vultum<br />

caeruleo minioque colore distincta . . .” (Isidore of Seville,<br />

Etym., x, H, 118–120.<br />

35. See chapter 1 [of Th e World at Play in Boccaccio’s Decameron] on<br />

this polemical view of medicine.<br />

36. [ . . . ] See also Inferno vii, 61–69. Cf. Vincenzo Cioff ari, Th e<br />

Conception of Fortune and Fate in the Works of Dante (Cambridge,<br />

Mass.: Dante Society, 1940). More generally, see Howard R.<br />

Patch, Th e Goddess Fortuna in Medieval Literature (Cambridge,<br />

Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1927).<br />

37. “Valorose donne, quanto più si parla de’ fatti della fortuna, tanto<br />

più, a chi vuole le sue cose ben riguardare, ne resta a poter dire:<br />

e di cio’ niuno dee aver maraviglia, se discretamente pensa che<br />

tutte le cose, le quali noi scioccamente nostre chiamiamo, sieno<br />

nelle sue mani, . . .” (Decameron, ii, 3, p. 108).<br />

38. “Andreas . . . sermone autem Graeco a viro virilis appellatur”<br />

(Isidore, Etym., vii, ix, 11).<br />

39. “ . . . dove giunto una domenica sera in sul vespro, dall’oste<br />

suo informato la seguente mattina fu in sul Mercato, . . .”<br />

(Decameron, ii, 5, p. 126). Carlo Muscetta, Giovanni Boccaccio<br />

(Bari: Laterza, 1972), p. 196, mistakenly believes the story takes<br />

place on Sunday night.<br />

40. “Ella appresso, . . . con lui nella sua camera se n’entro’, la quale<br />

di rose, di fi ori d’aranci e d’altri odori tutta oliva” (Decameron, p.<br />

128).<br />

41. Th e point is stressed by Giovanni Getto, Vita di forme e forme<br />

di vita nel Decameron (Turin: Petrini, 1958), pp. 78–94. See<br />

also Aldo Rossi, “La combinatoria decameroniana: Andreuccio,”<br />

Strumenti critici, 7 (1973), pp. 1–51. For a view that emphasizes<br />

the symmetrical correspondences in the Decameron, see Tzvetan<br />

Todorov, Grammaire du Decameron (Th e Hague and Paris:<br />

Mouton, 1969). Of interest are also Gregory Lucente, “Th e<br />

Fortunate Fall of Andreuccio da Perugia,” Forum Italicum, 10

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