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Quotation from The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
“whoso goes a reading among these stories, let him pass over those that vex him, and read those that please him”
The Decameron, The Author's Conclusion, trans. J. M. Rigg (1903)
Boccaccio answers critics of his indecent tales by saying that each tale's heading tells what it contains, so readers may choose.
Citation: "whoso goes a reading among these stories, let him pass over those that vex him, and read those that please him" — Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, The Author's Conclusion, trans. J. M. Rigg (1903). (id the-decameron-q9)
Portrait: A Tale from the Decameron (1916), painting by John William Waterhouse, John William Waterhouse, Public domain.
