Dante died in 1328, fifty years before the Pope began assembling the library in 1378, and 150 years before the first Bible was printed with movable type.
But that did not mean woodblock printing did not exist before movable type. The French had not brought back the Rosetta Stone, but they had brought back quite a few rubbings. Many seals were carved in reverse, and the "type" in movable-type books sometimes was as well, if it was raised. The Rosetta Stone, however, was incised, so there was no need to reverse it after making a rubbing.
To build a library, one first had to collect books. Before the Pope moved back to Rome, there were many private collectors. Many Crusaders, including the lords, could not read. The documents left behind by Ancient Greece and Rome were useless to them, so they often sold them off cheaply.
Dante's Divine Comedy contained many pagan elements, but it was still far behind The Decameron. The reason the Divine Comedy spread so widely, aside from not being banned, was that it was written in the vernacular—namely the Tuscan dialect—instead of Latin, the common written language. It was a very commoner-friendly language.
The earliest version of The Decameron, meanwhile, had been written in Latin. Georgiana had also seen a vernacular version of The Decameron in the list of banned books—a handwritten copy. No matter how such books were "collected," some would always find their way out.
During a break in the banquet, Georgiana went to a corner to smoke. Back when she had played the role of a "backdrop," she only needed to fake a smile for a little while. Before long, everyone's eyes and attention would be drawn to the "protagonist."
Speaking of incompetence, she had her own kind of it, and for a