. Gli uomini e le buone maniere della vecchia Firenze. eturned home, pensando che un migliaio di anni tillthey deve ottenere le chiavi. E andarono a fetchthem, ma prima di tutto hanno pagato i debiti, come Giovanni hadordered. E quando i debiti sono stati pagati essi weregiven le chiavi e tornarono a casa e openedthe torace e trovato al suo interno la barra di ferro e thewriting : Questa è la volontà di Giovanni Cavazza; hewho agli altri il Signore dona se stesso e tutti, da questa asta ofiron egli sarà ucciso withaV ora questo esempio che si distingue per la thatpleasant allegria che anima alcuni di Boc-caccios tales, questo scherzo che motivi

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. Men and manners of old Florence. eturned home, thinking it a thousand years tillthey should obtain the keys. And they went to fetchthem, but first they paid the debts, as Giovanni hadordered. And when the debts were paid they weregiven the keys, and they returned home and openedthe chest and found therein the iron bar and thewriting : This is the will of Giovanni Cavazza; hewho unto others doth give himself and all, by this rod ofiron shall he be killed withaV Now this example, which is distinguished by thatpleasant cheerfulness which enlivens some of Boc-caccios tales, this jest which pleased our moralist somuch that he related it twice in his pages, and notwithout a touch of malice in his enjoyment, gives usan insight into certain hidden aspects of his nature, certain incorrigible defects in his character of astuteand circumspect merchant. Beneath the habit of thedevout moralist we discover the striped hose and thepurse of the merchant; under the outward semblanceof religious unction we recognise the furtive cunning. THE CHURCH OF SANTA REPAEATA AND THE CAMPANILE, {From a iiiiiiiafiirc of the Biadajoh.) [To faci page 77- FLORENTINE MIND AND MANNERS 77 of that native trickery which neither religion norexamples could succeed in restraining. The modernmerchant makes no pretences, because he belongs toa different age and a different race ; he knows nowaverings between good and evil, for the simple reasonthat he looks only to the useful, into which either ofthe other qualities may enter with varying percentage.The fourteenth-century merchant wants to make agood profit, but he always keeps an eye on the safetyof his soul, and his consequent uncertainties are easyto read between the lines of his counsels. Listen tothe practical and crafty advice he offers in matters ofbusiness : When thou hast need that another should renderthee a service, go into his house, that is, into the houseof the man from whom thou art going to ask theservice, because he will not refuse thee in h

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