Boccace is as•…•…ssinated by Salviati.
LEonardo Salviati, a man (as far as the present times, and the condi∣tion of the modern Tuscans allow it, of singular learning, did an acti∣on two daies agoe, which hath been infinitely blamed by all the Vertuo∣si. For about two a clock at night, at the entrance of Forum maximum, having affronted Signior Giovanni Boccacio, Prose-Master Major to his Majesty, he gave him many wounds, with which he so disfigured and maim'd him, that his most intimate acquaintance, which have seen him since this mischance, affirm that it is not possible to know him for that same bonny Boccace which formerly he was. And that which in∣finitely aggravated so foul a fault, was, that Salviati did not thus inhu∣mane trespasses for any particular distast given him by Boccace; but at the request of the Giunti, Printers at Florence, for greediness after five and twenty crowns, which they gave him by way of reward for so im∣pious an act. In so much, that this morning, Cavalier Leonardo Salvi∣ati, a man born of so Noble a Family, was, out of the publick Pulpit, standing in the Rostra, proclaimed a publick and notorious Asassinate.