Notes and Queries, Number 187, May 28, 1853

Оглавление

Various. Notes and Queries, Number 187, May 28, 1853

Notes

ON CHAUCER'S KNOWLEDGE OF ITALIAN

THE REBELLION OF '45.—UNPUBLISHED LETTER

OLIVER ST. JOHN

NOTES ON SEVERAL MISUNDERSTOOD WORDS

FOLK LORE

A NOTE ON GULLIVER'S TRAVELS

SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDENCE

THE CŒNACULUM OF LIONARDO DA VINCI

Minor Notes

Queries

FURTHER QUERIES RESPECTING BISHOP KEN

THE REV. JOHN LAWSON AND HIS MATHEMATICAL MANUSCRIPTS

Minor Queries

Minor Queries with Answers

Replies

CURFEW

THE "SALT-PETER-MAN."

FORMS OF JUDICIAL OATHS

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE

Replies to Minor Queries

Miscellaneous

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE

Notices to Correspondents

CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY

WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY SOCIETY,

LIST OF NEW WORKS

Отрывок из книги

In the Memoir prefixed to the Aldine edition of the Poetical Works of Chaucer, London, 1845, Sir Harris Nicolas expresses an opinion that Dan Geoffrey was not acquainted with the Italian language, and therefore not versed in Italian literature.

To which the following note is subjoined:

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The death of Arcite is thus related by Boccaccio:

Chaucer loses nothing of this description in his condensed translation:

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