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It is also worth noting that in a letter addressed to the
consellers of Barcelona in 1398, the
Cardinal of Valencia, James of Aragon, praises the moral usefulness of Valerius
Maximus as opposed to the unworthy «romances» (Miquel i Planas
1914: 3). The same point of view appears in Boccaccio's commentary on Canto V
of the
Inferno in which, from the learned position
of the
commentator, he states that the
«French romances» are «composed more for pleasure than for
truth» (Padoan 1994 I: 323). On Boccaccio's intellectual position in this
commentary, see Bruni (1990: 465-77).
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