Excerpt from Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, Vol. 32: September 1917This novel, written in 1444 by Eneas Sylvius Pic colomini, enjoyed extraordinary popularity. Of it we may note before 1500 one manuscript and no less than seventy-three European editions, 9 printed in Italy, Ger many, France, Holland, and Spain. By 1560 at least seven more versions had appeared on the Continent. It was undoubtedly one of the most read stories of the whole Renaissance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.