The principal features of the plot are the same in both.
In all other particulars they are quite different.
But forty days after this, he quitted his realm, having intrusted two knights with its government, and passed to the Holy Land at the head of a large force.
In short, Ser Giovanni versified and set to music all the principal motives upon which the Novella of feeling turned, and formed an ars amandi adapted to the use of the people.
In the style, no less than in the method of the book, Ser Giovanni shows himself a closer follower of the Decameron than Sacchetti.
Nothing is known about Ser Giovanni, except what he tells us in the Sonnet just quoted.
Somewhat later than Sacchetti's Novelle, appeared another collection of more or less veracious anecdotes, compiled by a certain Ser Giovanni.
Sacchetti, Ser Giovanni, Masuccio, and the ordinary tribe of chroniclers pretended to no humanistic culture.
Though he had the good qualities of a trecentisto prosaist, Ser Giovanni was in this respect but a poor artist.
Here he nearly ruined his health by debauchery, and narrowly escaped assassination at the hands of a certain Ser Rosello.
Yet Ser Giovanni mingles more amusing stories with these lectures;[139] and the historical dissertations are managed with such grace, with so golden a simplicity of style, that they are readable.
If the chroniclers and painters enable us to form some conception of Florentine festivity, we are introduced to the persons and pastimes of these jovial companies by the poet Folgore da San Gemignano.
It need hardly be observed that neither in Villani's nor in Dante's prose do we find the same puerility.
Christ himself is scoffed at in a jest which points the most indecent of these tales.
It contains the famous lines: Come deggio sperar che surga Dante Che gia chi il sappia legger non si trova?
The tow and the halter, for to hang on yon tree, And lat her hang there for the poisoning o' me.
Still it would be difficult to imagine a more complete inversion of the Dantesque point of view, a more deliberate substitution of an Earthly Paradise for the Paradiso of the Divine Comedy.
That the effect was not wholly grotesque, though the motives were so hazardous, can be understood from Milton's description of the descent of Mercy in his Christmas Ode.
The same symbols portray another reality, not apprehended merely by faith, but brought home to the heart by experience.
Here is the Scotch version from Lord Donald: What will ye leave to your true-love, Lord Donald, my son?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ser" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
