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Quotation from The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
“I had rather have a man without wealth than wealth without a man”
The Decameron, Day 5, Novel 9, trans. J. M. Rigg (1903)
The widowed Monna Giovanna answers her brothers, who mock her choice of Federigo, the poor nobleman who served her his only falcon.
Citation: "I had rather have a man without wealth than wealth without a man" — Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, Day 5, Novel 9, trans. J. M. Rigg (1903). (id the-decameron-q6)
Portrait: A Tale from the Decameron (1916), painting by John William Waterhouse, John William Waterhouse, Public domain.
