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Most valuable of the books on display is a Petrarch "incunabulum Trionfl", printed in Venice in 1497. Also included are an early edition of Boccaccio's "Decameron", printed at Brescia in 1536, and a very rare edition of Boccaccio's "Thirteen Delectable Questions", one of the earliest translations of Boccaccio to be printed in England, published in London...
...familiar is the lengthy decameron of the Post's civic exploits. Every year the available hunters of Denver go off to the mountains in quest of jackrabbits, and these, in astronomical quantities, are dumped in front of the Post Building for the usufruct of the poor. The Post has always sold coal--its slogan "An Extra Lump With Every Ton" was in Bonfil's best vein. When Denver's physicians announced that most of the jackrabbits had tularemia, and were inedible, when the city sealer declared that every ton of Post coal was short-weight, Mr. Bonfils refused even...
...Graeco-Roman amphitheatre, she went to the U. S. with her family when she was eight. A shining advertisement for Manhattan's public schools, College of the City of New York and Columbia University, she speaks seven languages, has published a translation of Boccaccio's Decameron, three historical novels (The Ardent Flame, The Golden Round, Pagan Interval...
...That Boccanccio's famous Decameron has been recently banned from the shelves of the Harvard Cooperative Society was learned definitely yesterday...
...same story appears in the Decameron, and is the fourth story of the seventh...