Colophon

The Decameron
was written from 1348⁠–⁠1353 by
Giovanni Boccaccio.
It was translated from Italian in 1886 by
John Payne.

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Vince Rice,
and is based on a transcription produced in 2007 by
Ted Garvin, Linda Cantoni, and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team
for
Project Gutenberg
and on digital scans from the
Internet Archive.

The cover page is adapted from
Sigismunda with the Heart of Guiscardo,
a painting completed in 1645 by
Francisco Furini.
The cover and title pages feature the
League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy
typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by
The League of Moveable Type.

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October 21, 2020, 2:07 a.m.
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