November 9, 2004

Last line

May His grace and peace, sweet ladies, remain with you always, and if perchance these stories should bring you any profit, remember me.

Posted by sheila
Comments

Clue:

The clue to what the hell this is is the words "these stories".

Posted by: red at November 9, 2004 7:12 PM

I worded that clue badly.

The words "and if perchance these stories should bring you any profit, remember me" contain a clue to the form of this classic book.

This is the ITALIAN version of the book - there's also an English version of ... er ... the same thing.

Posted by: red at November 9, 2004 8:29 PM

Feh, before you said Italian I was thinking Canterbury Tales. Now I am just confused. I spend a lot of time being confused.

Posted by: Ted K at November 9, 2004 10:11 PM

I've been thinking The Decameron, but I can't really justify it.

Posted by: Linus at November 9, 2004 10:21 PM

Yes. It's The Decameron.

Check this one off the list!!

Posted by: red at November 10, 2004 10:38 AM