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Quotation from The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

“they may be readily cured thereof by the Lament of Jeremiah, the Passion of the Saviour, or the Complaint of the Magdalen”

Giovanni Boccaccio (spoken by Boccaccio (author))

The Decameron, The Author's Conclusion, trans. J. M. Rigg (1903)

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio

Boccaccio's joking reply to those who say his stories are too full of jests: readers who laugh too much can turn to sorrowful devotional reading.

Citation: "they may be readily cured thereof by the Lament of Jeremiah, the Passion of the Saviour, or the Complaint of the Magdalen" — Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, The Author's Conclusion, trans. J. M. Rigg (1903). (id the-decameron-q10)

Portrait: A Tale from the Decameron (1916), painting by John William Waterhouse, John William Waterhouse, Public domain.

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