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Excerpt from Boccace: Poete, Conteur, Moraliste, Homme Politique
Ce gai compagnon si prompt, disaient ses contempo rains, au badinage grivois, tait un curieux de science, un travailleur acharn , un savant universel. Toute sa vie se passa rechercher, lire, annoter des livres; puis, lorsque l'heure vint de rentrer au port il mit profit son acquis, qui tait immense, pour composer des trait s d'histoire, de mythologie et de g ographie. Mais, m me dans ces ouvrages, qui semblent favoriser si peu les confidences, il se livre tout entier, il donne son senti ment sur tout, en sorte que son oeuvre est une confession continue d'autant plus franche qu'elle est souvent incan sciente, une autobiographie psychologique d'une rare pr cision.
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