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Corbaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

Il Corbaccio, or "The Crow", is an Italian literary work by Giovanni Boccaccio, traditionally dated c. 1355.

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“They boosted themselves with such nauseating self-praise as to make the stones jump out of the walls and flee.”

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Se medesimi esaltando con parole da fare per istomacaggine le pietre saltar del muro e fuggirsi.
Il Corbaccio (c. 1355), "The Labyrinth of Love" (tr. Normand Cartier)

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