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La Fontaine drew from several French and Italian works of the 15th and 16th centuries , among them "The Decameron" of Giovanni Boccaccio , Ludovico Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso" , Antoine de la Sale's collection "Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles" , and the work of Bonaventure des Périers . 
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