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| | The Decameron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The circumstances described in the Decameron are heavily infused with a medieval sense of numerological and mystical significance. | | | Thus, the book is subtitled Prencipe Galeotto, that is Galehaut, the go-between of Lancelot and Guinevere, a nod to Dante's allusion to Galeotto in Inferno V, who was blamed for the arousal of lust in the episode of Paolo and Francesca. | | | However, scholars do agree that his "Clerk's Tale" is derived from a Latin translation by Petrarch of the last story of the Decameron. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decameron
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| | Decameron, Il (1971) |
| | "Decameron" is the first part of Pasolini's "Trilogy Of Life", which continues with adaptations of two other celebrated works of world fiction; "The Canterbury Tales" (1972) and the "Arabian Nights" aka "A Thousand and One Nights" (1974). | | | I have not seen two other Pasolini's films but 'Decameron' captures the original spirit of Boccaccio's tales truthfully and with love, humanity, and perfect sense of the medieval Italy. | | | All these books have been known as distinguished and revered works of literature that belong to the immortal classics. |
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065622
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| | Flak Magazine: Review of Boccaccio's Decameron, 8.11.99 |
| | Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron is a terrific example: the problems of corruption in high office, sexual jealousy and the differences between the rich and the poor figure directly into a large number of the Decameron's tales. | | | Boccaccio's Decameron, little known outside of academia in general and the Italian department in particular, is one such title. | | | Those who wish to browse The Decameron on the web are encouraged to stop by Brown University's terrific site, The Decameron Web, which holds a complete transcript of the stories, in English and the original Italian. |
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http://www.flakmag.com/books/decameron.html
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| | Boccaccio: more resources |
| | Ethics of retribution in the Decameron and the late medieval Italian novella: beyond the circle. | | | Boccaccio, and the debate of love: a comparative study of the Decameron and The Canterbury Tales. | | | The Decameron and the Canterbury tales: new essays on an old question. |
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http://wings.buffalo.edu/litgloss/boccaccio/more.shtml
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| | of the Tale of Alibech and Rustico (Decameron III,10." Italica 75.2 (1998): 161-77. | | | Allen, Shirley S. "The Griselda Tale and the Portrayal of Women in the Decameron." Philological Quarterly 56 (1977): 1-13. | | | "The Last Tale in the Decameron." In The Sign of Reason. |
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http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~vkirkham/537bib.htm
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| | Giovanni Boccaccio, 1313-1375 |
| | The Decameron has also been the subject of poems by Keats, Tennyson, Longfellow, Swinburne and George Eliot. | | | During the plague at Florence in 1348, seven ladies and three gentlemen left the city for a country villa and over a period of ten days told one hundred stories. | | | Boccaccio's originality lay in his narrative skill and in the rich poetical sentiments which adorns his borrowed materials. |
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http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/boccaccio.html
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| | The Decameron (Il Decamerone) |
| | The trilogy of The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales and the Arabian Tales of 1001 Nights create a mythical world where the nature of sex can be explored. | | | The bawdy nature of the original stories helps to do this, but the fact that the ori ginals are made up of many tales is important too. | | | Wh at everyone wanted to see was not pimps (Franco Sitti in Accatone and Il decamerone), but men chatting up women from helicopters (Marcello Mastroianni in Fellini's La dolce vita, 1960), however tongue in cheek it was. |
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http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~basement/reviews/decameron.html
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| | The Decameron Web. How does encoding help pedagogy? |
| | Like the brigata of young Florentines who narrate the tales of the Decameron, a learning brigata is formed, with leaders in charge of the class discussion, according to the order established by the text. | | | Professor Riva's theoretical approach to the teaching of the Decameron is based on the consideration that Boccaccio's book can be considered a hypertext 'in a virtual sense'. | | | The facing texts will help non-Italian students enrich their understanding of the text by allowing them to rely on the English translation, but to browse in and compare with the original Medieval Italian text. |
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http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ach_allc2001/papers/roz
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| | Candida Martinelli's Italophile Site(Boccaccio) |
| | The Decameron was one of the earliest printed books, the first edition coming out of Venice in 1471. | | | The structure of the collection of often bawdy short stories explains the title: the book is divided into ten days during which each member of a group of ten people tells one tale, so each day’s tales equal ten. | | | Like Petrarch with his Laura, and Dante with his Beatrice, Boccaccio had his Fiammetta, his inspiration, and in his case, his lover and introduction into court society. |
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http://italophiles.com/boccaccio.htm
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| | Boccaccio and Decameron Guide |
| | This book demonstrates that Boccaccio esteemed Dante, and that he often reflected the writings of Dante in his Decameron stories. | | | This is an annotated bibliography listing adapatations of Boccaccio's works in the English language. | | | I try not to include pages that merely make a passing reference to Boccaccio or the Decameron, but to include anything that provides substantive information or interesting discussion or spinoffs. |
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http://www.sfu.ca/~finley/decaguide.html
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| | The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio - Penguin Group (USA) |
| | Like the Divine Comedy, the Decameron is a towering monument of medieval pre-Renaissance literature, and incorporates certain important elements that are not at once apparent to today's readers. | | | While Dante is a stern moralist, Boccaccio has little time for chastity, pokes fun at crafty, hypocritical clerics and celebrates the power of passion to overcome obstacles and social divisions. | | | In the early summer of the year 1348, as a terrible plague ravages the city, ten charming young Florentines take refuge in country villas to tell each other stories—a hundred stories of love, adventure and surprising twists of fortune which later inspired Chaucer, Keats and Shakespeare. |
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http://www.penguinputnam.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0140449302,00.html?sym=REV
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| | Amazon.com: Decameron: Books: Giovanni Boccaccio,Stephen Thorne,Nickie Rainsford,Alison Pettit,Teresa Gallagher,Polly ... |
| | Boccaccio claims that his goal in writing 'The Decameron' was to entertain and 'provide succour and diversion' (Prologue 3) to young women who are in love - presumably those whose love lives are not going well at the moment. | | | 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. | | | Quite often one or another of the chaste storytelling party finishes a tale of illicit pleasure on a note of "May we, too, always have our desires fulfilled." THE DECAMERON is not all lust and corruption, of course, there are tales of great bravery and loyalty in the face of high odds. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/9626347090?v=glance
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| | GradeSaver: The Decameron Essay: Gardens in Confessions and Decameron |
| | While the characters in The Decameron are able to exist in the garden that symbolizes human perfection without ruining it, Saint Augustine, in his Confessions, fails to do so. | | | The countryside is the only place that can be perfect and the only place where humans can possibly hope to achieve perfection, because it is there that they can be with God's creation and away from the negative influence of others. | | | Poetic Justice in Boccaccio's Decameron VIII:7 with References to Dante's Inferno |
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http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/decameron/essay1.html
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| | Powell's Books - The Decameron: Selected Tales (Dover Thrift Editions) by Giovanni Boccaccio |
| | This is the premise of Boccaccio's The Decameron, a landmark of medieval literature and one of the world's great story collections. | | | This original selection of 25 tales (out of the total of 100) presents the very best of The Decameron, a classic that has delighted readers for centuries and served as an inspiration for works by Chaucer, Keats, and Shakespeare. | | | As a fearsome plague rages through 14th-century Florence, a group of 10 young people retreat to the healthful air of the country and pass their time together telling stories of romance and adventure. |
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http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=0486411133
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| | Boccaccio and the Decameron |
| | It had an enormous impact on the history of European literature, serving as the inspiration for the whole genre of the "novella" and as the model for other framed story collections, such as Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. | | | It was translated into Latin by Petrarch, who moralized it as an example of Christian patience, and it became immensely popular in the later Middle Ages, being translated into French, English as Chaucer's Clerk's Tale, into German three or four times, etc. | | | The Decameron, begun about 1350, has long been Boccaccio's most famous work among general readers. |
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http://camden-www.rutgers.edu/dept-pages/german/bocc.html
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| | Zap2it.com - Movie news - De Laurentiis to Produce Classic 'The Decameron' |
| | "The Decameron" follows ten charming young Florentines who escape the ravages of the plague by retreating to a villa in the Italian countryside. | | | Screenwriter David Leland adds, "Part fable, part parable, part history, the hundred stories told in Boccaccio's 'The Decameron' are raked from all layers of 14th century Florentine society. | | | Legendary filmmaker Dino De Laurentiis, along with his wife and business partner Martha, will produce the tale. |
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http://www.zap2it.com/movies/news/story/0,1259,---17633,00.html
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| | The Decameron |
| | The collection is structured as 100 tales told over the span of 10 days by seven ladies and three gentlemen (the word "decameron" is derived from the Greek and means "ten days"). | | | The plague is ravaging the city of Florence and people are dying in great numbers. | | | The scoundrel Ser Cepperello manages to pass himself off as a virtuous man during his last confession. |
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http://fajardo-acosta.com/worldlit/boccaccio/decameron.htm
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| | The Decameron - Rent on DVD at QwikFliks.com Online DVD Movie Rentals |
| | The director himself is a nice touch as Giotto, and I'm rather haunted by the line, "Why bother to create art when dreaming about it is so much better?" Still, there's a nice balance of crudity and beauty, bawdy humor and religious satire. | | | An entry in Pasolini's canon of bringing the bawdy classics to cinema (see ARABIAN NIGHTS, SALO), THE DECAMERON based on the tales of Boccaccio seems dated even in the telling, artier than the early-70s sex romps it inspired, but not altogether thrilling. | | | Legendary Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini delivers nine exuberant tales in this "earthy, genuinely ribald and spicy" (Variety) film. |
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http://www.qwikfliks.com/dvd_info.asp?movID=207832
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| | Boccaccio, Giovanni: The Decameron |
| | In addition to the stories is a lengthy introduction in which Boccaccio describes the "brief unpleasantness" necessitating the geographical wanderings and narrative adventures of the ten storytellers, the outbreak of bubonic plague in Florence in 1348. | | | The Decameron consists of one hundred tales--ten tales told over ten days by ten storytellers, three noblemen and seven ladies. | | | The Decameron was written 1344-1350; the Introduction was written in 1348. |
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http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/boccaccio1407-des-.html
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| | W. W. Norton College Books : English : NCE : The Decameron |
| | Ben Lawton - Boccaccio and Pasolini - A Contemporary Reinterpretation of The Decameron | | | Mark Musa and Peter Bondanella - The Meaning of The Decameron | | | Norton College Books : English : NCE : The Decameron |
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http://www.wwnorton.com/college/titles/english/nce/decam/contents.htm
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| | DVD Savant Review: The Decameron |
| | The original Decameron contained 100 tales, and is one of the first major novels; poet Pasolini has reached back to the classics. | | | There must be fifteen or twenty separate tales, with only one that reappears several times through the show. | | | There's no need for a synopsis for Pasolini's The Decameron; it's just one bawdy tale after another, a series of stories that play as if they could have come from 400 years ago, without alteration. |
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http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s661decam.html
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| | "The Decameron" Wraps Filming (June 17th, 2005) - Dark Horizons |
| | With "Decameron: Angels & Virgins," David Leland has created an original and irreverent comedy inspired by the 14th Century but with a modern spin (including original costumes, music and contemporary dialogue) that will appeal to teenage audiences who will relate to the classic problems with sex and love faced by Boccaccio's young characters. | | | This modern interpretation is written and directed by David Leland who returned to the original text to weave its many tales into a single narrative aimed to be full of vitality, humour and passion. | | | Principal photography has completed on "Decameron: Angels & Virgins," after 9 weeks of filming in Rome and Tuscany, Italy. |
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http://www.darkhorizons.com/news05/050617g.php
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| | The Decameron - Lightsfade review |
| | 'Decameron' is shot by photographer Tonino Delli Colli in the bright summer light and bold colour of a renaissance fresco or manuscript. | | | (Irwin traces the interconnections between the stories in Decameron, Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights and provides good overview of the history of these works) | | | Pasolini reinforces this style by appearing as a painter himself, a 'disciple of Giotto'. |
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http://www.lightsfade.com/reviews/decameron.htm
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| | A tale from the Decameron retold on The Gold Scales |
| | A tale from the Decameron retold on The Gold Scales | | | More than one tale from our Decameron Retold could help, even though misleading pleasantries may foster certain cynical attitudes in kids and grown-ups alike. | | | No young ones should be carried along with the low tidal wave of unseemly indulgence. |
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| | Decameron on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Chaucer's Miller's Tale and Reeve's Tale, Boccaccio's Decameron, and the French fabliaux.(Critical Essay) | | | Boccaccio's 'Decameron' and de Ferrieres's 'Songe de Pestilence.' (Giovanni Bocaccio, Henri de Ferrieres) |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/X/X-D1ecamero.asp
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| | Jim's Reviews - The Decameron |
| | Pasolini has jettisoned the framework of Boccaccio's book, written between 1348 and 1353, in which seven women and three men from contemporary Florence, then stricken by plague and the ensuing social chaos, retire to a countryside villa and distract each other by telling stories. | | | For more information about Boccaccio, here is a link to Brown University's Decameron Web, where you can find the complete text of | | | (The title "decameron" literally means "Ten Days' Work," and refers to the ten stories which each of the ten friends tell during a – you guessed it – ten-night period.) Instead, Pasolini creates a double framework, in which he tells, in his own inimitable fashion, nine of Boccaccio's one hundred stories. |
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| | FilmStew.com • Christensen Joins The Decameron |
| | Hayden Christensen has inked a deal to star in Dino De Laurentiis' upcoming adaptation of the 14th century Italian classic The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio. | | | The O.C. 's Mischa Barton is already attached to one of the lead's in Dino De Laurentiis' adaptation of classic Italian story. | | | The O.C. 's Mischa Barton has already come aboard to play Pampinea. |
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http://www.filmstew.com/Content/Article.asp?ContentID=10817
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| | The Decameron Widescreen Edition DVD - MovieWeb |
| | Decameron was the first of director Pier Paolo Pasolini's "trilogy of life." The film, based on the sexually supercharged tales of Boccaccio, is a patchwork of many of Pasolini's favorite themes. | | | Pasolini himself plays the role of an aspiring fresco painter who is advised that his completed work will never be as satisfying as his dream of that work. | | | DVD > The Decameron: Widescreen Edition DVD > Features |
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http://movieweb.com/dvd/dvd.php?014381441925
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| | Decameron Tarot |
| | It aims to show love without mystery, and its 78 cards are fully illustrated with men and woman in many and various sexual positions. | | | Support Aeclectic Tarot by ordering the Decameron Tarot from |
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http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/decameron/cards.shtml
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Decameron [1972]: DVD |
| | Nice to see The Decameron reissued, as well as parts two and three of the 'Trilogy of Life'- The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Knights. | | | 'The Decameron' is one Pasolini's trilogy of films ('Arabian Nights' and 'Canterbury Tales' are the others) exploring the role of the storyteller and the translation of this timeless vocal tradition into a cinematic one. | | | Pier Paolo Pasolini, is definately one of the greatest directors of all time....and this film is no exception....The Decameron or "Il Decamerone" is the 1st installment in Pasolinis "Trilogy Of Life" films....in this trilogy Pasolini worked three great pieces of literature and made them into three great cinematic pieces of art. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005ATG2
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| | FilmStew.com • Dino De Laurentiis on The Decameron |
| | De Laurentiis to produce an adaptation of the 14th century novel with his wife Martha. | | | FilmStew.com • Dino De Laurentiis on The Decameron | | | A new adaptation of Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th century classic The Decameron is about to be produced by Dino De Laurentiis. |
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http://www.filmstew.com/Content/Article.asp?ContentID=6233
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| | New Statesman (1996): The Decameron. (book reviews)@ HighBeam Research |
| | It is the great early Renaissance story-bank, an anthology of 100 classic tales, some - such as the tale of Patient Griselda or the Pot of Basil - now universal, because they've passed from writer to writer in an endless process of revision and recycling. | | | The Decameron is a book I've often turned to yet never read completely, to follow out its structure and trace its accumulating narrative from start to end. | | | For any writer The Decameron, along with other great story-hordes - The Arabian (or... |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:20924297&refid=holomed_1
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| | The Decameron |
| | Third Day, First Story because the nuns are curious about sex and do not hesitate to seduce the clever Masetto. | | | Religion: In addition to the plague, "The Decameron" is written at a time when religion played a critical role in the daily affairs of the populace. | | | The Plague: "The Decameron," is written in the thirteenth century amid the background of a devastating plague labeled the Black Death. |
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http://webpage.pace.edu/erichie/group1/FinalHistoryReligion.html
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| | Gothamist: Bad Casting Move: Mischa Barton In The Decameron |
| | The Decameron involves bawdy tales of young, beautiful and wealthy people right after the Black Death, and we understand why producer Dino De Laurentiis wants to adapt it. | | | Almost a decade ago, Gothamist had to tackle reading Boccacio's The Decameron for Columbia's Literature Humanities class in the Core Curriculum. | | | Oh, those days, reading the Decameron, making fun of the 'Nard... |
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http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2004/12/09/bad_casting_move_mischa_barton_in_the_decameron.php
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Humanism |
| | His chief disciple and friend, Boccaccio (1313-75), was honoured in his lifetime not for his erotic and lewd, though elegant and clever, "Decameron" (by which, however, posterity remembers him), but for his Latin works which helped to spread Humanism. | | | His chief merit was the impulse he gave to the search for the lost treasures of classical antiquity. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07538b.htm
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| | The Decameron |
| | Il Decameron is based on Boccaccio's book with the same title. | | | The film includes 10 stories without the framing one. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/yt/oinos/reviews/decameron.html
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| | Decameron Web: A Growing Hypermedia Archive of Materials Dedicated to Boccaccio's Masterpiece NEXT/TEXT |
| | Decameron Web suggests what might come to replace the conventional print textbook in the humanities: a dynamic learning environment through which investigators (at varying levels of experience) can trace trajectories. | | | Started by graduate and undergraduate students in 1994 at Brown University's Italian Studies program, under the direction of Prof. | | | Massimo Riva, Decameron Web has grown steadily up to the present day, providing a broad range of resources for scholars, students and general readers. |
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http://www.nailchipper.com/futuresomethings/?q=node/5
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| | E-Ren: The Decameron |
| | The Decameron was written in 1350 in the Tuscan dialect of Italian. | | | Instructor's note:If you know the translator and the date, please let me know at elknox@topgun.idbsu.edu. | | | I got this copy off the net, but I don't recollect the site. |
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http://www.idbsu.edu/courses/hy309/docs/decameron/decameron.html
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| | Christensen leads 'Decameron' |
| | "Il Decameron" is a ribald collection of 100 stories told by a group of unmarried nobles -- seven women and three men -- as they wait out the Florentine plague in the nearby countryside. | | | Hayden Christensen has signed on to play the male lead in "The Decameron," Dino De Laurentiis' upcoming adaptation of the 14th century Italian classic by Giovanni Boccaccio. | | | Christensen will play the role of Lorenzo, starring opposite "The O.C.'s" Mischa Barton, who in December signed on as Pampinea, the project's leading lady (HR 12/9). |
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/film/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000799529
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| | The Decameron Tarot Deck |
| | The writing is very good, the delineations consistently sexual in nature, as would be expected with this deck. | | | Writing in response to the human devastation caused by one of the black plagues in Florence, Boccaccio imagines a revolutionary new world of life & love, a future free of the prejudices & superstitions of the past. | | | Comments: For those that didn't see the X-rated Passolini film of the same name a few decades ago, The Decameron was a 14th century (1348) fantasy novel by Giovanni Boccaccio. |
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| | The Decameron in the Arts |
| | Alternatively, you may search the text of the Decameron. | | | Unfortunately, the page you requested is not at this address. | | | To locate a document in the Decameron Web, use the Advanced Site Search Tool. |
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http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/dec_ov/dec_ov.html
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| | The Decameron |
| | If you like The Decameron, the following films may interest you | | | Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for The Decameron to receive a rating. | | | Please check out a preview of the film below: |
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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/decameron?rtp=1
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| | IFILM - Movies: The Decameron - |
| | If you feel as if you've reached this page in error, please feel free to contact us at feedback@ifilm.com | | | We're sorry but The Decameron is not available. |
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