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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature | | German term or phrase: Andreützo | | He's a character in Boccaccio's Decameron (Day II, story 5). Does anyone know how the name is usually written in English - or, for that matter, in Italian - because I don't imagine it has the umlaut in either language. |
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| | Andreuccio da Perugia? | Explanation:
NOVEL V. - Andreuccio da Perugia comes to Naples to buy horses, meets with
three serious adventures in one night, comes safe out of them all, and
returns home with a ruby.
http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/etext03/thdcm10.txt
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“Andreützo (von Perusio)”. Von ihm erschien weiter eine zweite Schwanksammlung, den “Ander teil der Gartengesellschaft”, Einzelausgaben von drei weiteren Novellen aus dem Decameron Boccaccios (Thedaldus und Ermilina, Guiscardus und Sigismunda, Cymon und Iphigenia) in der Art des “Andreützo”, ein Gedicht von untereuen Wirten und drei Dramen, denen wieder Erzählungen von Boccaccio zu Grunde lagen.
http://www.angelseven.de/Unicorns/Poesie/Marchen/Von_einem_K...
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Matheus de Perusio (d.c.1418), also known as Matteo da Perugia, was long regarded as one of the premier composers of the late Ars Subtilior song.
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Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 11:32
| Grading comment That will be him - many thanks; my own Googling had failed to track him down.
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5 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +5 | Andreützo Andreuccio da Perugia?
Explanation:
NOVEL V. - Andreuccio da Perugia comes to Naples to buy horses, meets with
three serious adventures in one night, comes safe out of them all, and
returns home with a ruby.
http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/etext03/thdcm10.txt
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Note added at 9 mins (2004-08-08 14:31:46 GMT)
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“Andreützo (von Perusio)”. Von ihm erschien weiter eine zweite Schwanksammlung, den “Ander teil der Gartengesellschaft”, Einzelausgaben von drei weiteren Novellen aus dem Decameron Boccaccios (Thedaldus und Ermilina, Guiscardus und Sigismunda, Cymon und Iphigenia) in der Art des “Andreützo”, ein Gedicht von untereuen Wirten und drei Dramen, denen wieder Erzählungen von Boccaccio zu Grunde lagen.
http://www.angelseven.de/Unicorns/Poesie/Marchen/Von_einem_K...
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Note added at 11 mins (2004-08-08 14:33:35 GMT)
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Matheus de Perusio (d.c.1418), also known as Matteo da Perugia, was long regarded as one of the premier composers of the late Ars Subtilior song.
| Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 11:32
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 201
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| | Grading comment | That will be him - many thanks; my own Googling had failed to track him down. |
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