While looking through my recently-arrived copy of J.W. Waterhouse: The Modern Pre-Raphaelite, I was drawn to a footnote appended to the description of Waterhouse’s work, A Tale from the Decameron (1916). The painting, which illustrates a scene from Giovanni Boccaccio’s 1353 collection of novellas entitled The Decameron: Prencipe Galeotto, is among my favorites. I was…
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