Word: boccaccio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them, but was forced, nevertheless, to refuse admittance for the book. He said that no matter what he might think, he could not do anything about letting the book into the country. Another unusual case is that in which a four hundred year old edition of the "Decameron" of Boccaccio was not allowed to come...
Some of the books banned as objectionable by the customs employees are: Casanova's "Memoirs", Balzac's "Les Contes Drolatiques", Rabelais' "Oeuvres", Margueritte's "La Garconne", and "Prostituee", Marguerite de Navarre's "Hentameron", Longas' "Daphnis et Chloe", Galland's "Les Milles et Une Nuits", Rousscau's "Confessions", and Boccaccio's "Decameron...
Once again the clarions of the moral purists are sounded in the already tired cars of the country as works by Balzac. Rabelais, Rousseau, Boccaccio, and many others, on route to a Cambridge book store are declared to be of an "obscene nature" and kept from entering the country by the New York Customs House officials...
...author sunned himself in Italy with sophisticated and sympathetic Novelist-Essayist Aldous Leonard Huxley, news came that another Lawrence venture had riled English moralists. In London since mid-June there has been a first exhibition of Mr. Lawrence's adventures into painting. Two titles were typical: A Boccaccio Story, A Flight with An Amazon. Thousands of Londoners have seen them. Critics have snorted: "Repellent and distorted nudes . . . compel most spectators to recoil in horror...
History and legend are filled with plagues, most horrific of which was the Black Death which scourged Europe in the middle of the Fifteenth Century. When Boccaccio's characters fled Florence in 1438 and spent their exile telling the stories of the Decameron, they thus escaped a swift, nauseous blight which, so the tales run, made dark convulsions of men's faces, twisted tortures of their bodies...