Boccaccio Quotes

4 quotes by 4 authors

• I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style,… — Pietro Aretino
• India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as… — Lin Yutang
• The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of its ministers. — Heinrich Heine
• Laughter, on the other hand, " Petrarch went on, "is an explosion that tears us away from the world and throws us back into our… — Milan Kundera

Who Wrote These Boccaccio Quotes

4 authors contributed a total of 4 Boccaccio Quotes as follows:

• 1 Boccaccio Quote by Pietro Aretino
• 1 Boccaccio Quote by Lin Yutang
• 1 Boccaccio Quote by Heinrich Heine
• 1 Boccaccio Quote by Milan Kundera