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A16255 Amorous Fiammetta VVherein is sette downe a catologue [sic] of all an singuler passions of loue and iealosie, incident to an enamored yong gentlewoman, with a notable caueat for all women to eschewe deceitfull and wicked loue, by an apparant example of a Neapolitan lady, her approued & long miseries, and wyth many sounde dehortations from the same. First wrytten in Italian by Master Iohn Boccace, the learned Florentine, and poet laureat. And now done into English by B. Giouano del M. Temp. With notes in the margine, and with a table in the ende of the cheefest matters contayned in it.; Fiammetta. English Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.; Yong, Bartholomew, 1560-1621? 1587 (1587) STC 3179; ESTC S102851 186,424 264

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