’ after Boccaccio’s own heart! From far and wide scholars came to converse with him⁠—one from Haparanda, another from Krakow they came to our city of Padua, expressly to pay him homage, and he received them with dignified friendliness. He was a poet of distinction too, composing in his leisure tales in the most elegant Tuscan prose⁠—he was a master of the idioma gentile