 | John Ruskin - 1907 - 696 pages
...stories of the Decameron translated into some seven hundred different dialects or shades of dialect " The one that most faithfully resembles the pure Tuscan...romances which have delighted all Italy and all the world."1 This is the region to which most of Miss Alexander's tales take us. It was from Pian degli... | |
 | Anna R. Sheldon, Marjorie Moyca Newell - 1904 - 276 pages
...most faithfully represents the pure Tuscan of Boccaccio's day is that of peasants of the Pistojese Apennines. It is here, round about San Marcello and...pure in its accent; and it is here that Manzoni and d'Azelio came — comparative foreigners both of them, the one a Lombard, the other a Piedmontese —... | |
 | Anna R. Sheldon - 1904 - 166 pages
...most faithfully represents the pure Tuscan of Boccaccio's day is that of the peasants of the Pistojese Apennines ; it is here, round about San Marcello and...pure in its accent ; and it is here that Manzoni and d'Azelio came, comparative foreigners, both of them, the one a Lombard, the other a Piedmontese, to... | |
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Boccaccio's day is that of peasants of the Pistojese Apennines. It is here, round about San Marcello and Cutigliano, that the purest Tuscan is spoken — pure in its language, pure in its accent; and it is here that Manzoni and d'Azelio came — comparative... 