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The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death. The stories are told in a country villa outside the city of Florence by ten young noble men and women who are seeking to escape the ravages of the plague. Boccaccio's skill as a dramatist is masterfully displayed in these vivid portraits of people from all stations in life, with plots that revel in a bewildering variety of human reactions....
3) Le Decameron
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2023
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L'histoire commence par la rencontre de dix amis, sept femmes et trois hommes, réfugiés dans une villa, aux environs de Florence, afin d'échapper à une épidémie de peste. Chacun d'entre eux racontera des histoires, pour passer le temps, et poncturera la fin de chaque journée en chantant une canzone. La retraite, qui dure dix jours, donne naissance à cent nouvelles pleines d'esprit et de raffinement. L'auteur s'inspire de fabliaux français,
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The title of the book is translated as “ten-day period”. Exactly for ten days Boccaccio's heroes, ten young men and girls, who left their native city because of the epidemics of plague, tell each other anecdotal, magic, fascinating, didactic, tragic and erotic stories.
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The Decameron is one of the greatest literary works of the Middle Ages. Ten young people have fled the terrible effects of the Black Death in Florence and, in an idyllic setting, tell a series of brilliant stories, by turns humorous, bawdy, tragic and provocative. This celebration of physical and sexual vitality is Boccaccio's answer to the sublime other-worldliness of Dante's Divine Comedy.
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The 'Decameron', also called 'Prince Galehaut', is a 14th-century medieval allegory by Giovanni Boccaccio, told as a frame story encompassing 100 tales by ten young people. The book's primary title exemplifies Boccaccio's fondness for Greek philology: Decameron combines two Greek words, Greek: déka ("ten") and (Greek: hēméra ("day"), to form a term that means "ten-day event". Ten days is the time-period in which the characters of the frame story...
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The plague struck the City of Florence in 1348. A contemporary poet and writer, Giovanni Boccaccio, imagined a group of fashionable young people fleeing the plague and spending a "lockdown" on an estate in the Tuscan countryside. They entertained themselves by telling stories. Of course, the tales were all written by Boccaccio himself and he published them in 1354 under the title The Decameron.
When the Covid-19 pandemic produced lockdown in Cape...
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While the Black Death rages through fourteenth-century Florence, a group of young people retreat to the healthful air of the countryside and amuse themselves by telling tales of romance and adventure. This is the premise of Boccaccio's Decameron, a landmark of early Renaissance literature and one of the world's great story collections. Vast in scope, teeming with colorful characters, and rich in worldly wisdom, these 25 tales from the original 100...
12) Il Decameron
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MGM Home Entertainment
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[2002]
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Italiano
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Pasolini's rendition of 8 of Boccaccio's tales. Includes lusty nuns who perform sexual "miracles," a cheating wife with a head for business, a dying con artist attempting a heavenly swindle, young lovers caught with their pants down, a servant who loses his head for love and a gullible farmer who tries to turn his wife into a mare.
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In Boccaccio's Decamerone (1353), set during the 1348 Black Death epidemic in Florence, a group of men and women confined themselves to a villa in the hills outside the city and entertained one another by telling stories. Written nearly seven centuries later during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, this volume brings together stories written during lockdown by students at the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at The Open University, UK. Drawing...
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After the Plague ; 8
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Discover how the writer Giovanni Boccaccio found humor and joy in life, even amid human suffering.
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I n a villa hi g h above F lo r ence a gr oup o f seven women and t h r ee men a r e cocoonin g , seekin g shel t e r fr om t he epidemic , sca r ed b y r epo rt s o f dea t h comin g nea r e r t o t hei r own doo r s t ep b y t he da y .
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It should, as the above text describes Boccaccio's fourteenth-century masterpiece the Decameron. At once bawdy, witty, tragic and ever-topical, this selection of stories demonstrates how great...
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A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from 29 authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decameron."
When reality is surreal, only fiction can make sense of it.
As the coronavirus pandemic swept the world, The New York Times Magazine asked 29 authors to write new short...
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Written in the middle of the 14th century as the Bubonic Plague decimated the population of Europe, "The Decameron" is a satirical and allegorical collection of stories by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio. Constructed as a series of "frame stories," or stories within a story, the narrative follows seven young women and three young men who take refuge in a secluded villa outside Florence in order to escape the Black Death. During ten evenings of their...
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Delphi Classics (Parts Edition)
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2017
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Italiano
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Questo eBook offre il testo integrale italiano del "Decameron" di Giovanni Boccaccio dall'edizione bestseller di 'The raccolte opere di Giovanni Boccaccio'. Dopo aver stabilito il loro nome come il principale editore di letteratura classica e arte, Delphi classici produrre pubblicazioni che sono realizzate individualmente con formattazione superiore, mentre l'introduzione di molti testi rari per la prima volta in stampa digitale. L'edizione di
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The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes by W. G. Waters.
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