Perhaps he was thinking of the pretty, fantastic little comedy that had just been performed up in that garden at Campden Hill-like some dream-picture out of boccaccio.
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black
The Italian presses were busy with boccaccio, Petrarch, and Dante.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
Analogy with the boccaccio suggests that Caxton had the plate made before he realized the difficulties of impression, and that some prints were separately struck from it and one of these pasted inside the binding of the Devonshire copy, whence it was removed to its present position when the book was rebound.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard