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Quotation from The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
“the goodness of God spares to regard our errors when they result from unavoidable ignorance”
The Decameron, Day 1, Novel 2, trans. J. M. Rigg (1903)
Neifile sums up the first tale, in which a wicked man's false confession makes him a popular saint, before telling of Abraham the Jew.
Citation: "the goodness of God spares to regard our errors when they result from unavoidable ignorance" — Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, Day 1, Novel 2, trans. J. M. Rigg (1903). (id the-decameron-q3)
Portrait: A Tale from the Decameron (1916), painting by John William Waterhouse, John William Waterhouse, Public domain.
