Word: boccaccio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thought that such books should be barred from the newsstands and put out of reach of children. Duffy invited them to appear before the Dubuque grand jury and state their case, countered by sending two officers to the public library with a warrant for the seizure of copies of Boccaccio's Decameron, Fielding's Tom Jones and some of Rabelais' works...
...name of culture, the top people of Florence were kept busy last week entertaining delegates to the fifth annual conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The Business and Professional Women's Club poured tea in a villa where according to legend Giovanni Boccaccio met one of the voluptuous heroines of his Decameron. An Italian movie company held a special screening of an animated cartoon called The Rose of Baghdad, which allegedly had been inspired by the work of UNESCO. No one was quite sure what Boccaccio or Baghdad had to do with the organization...
Singleton accepts his fellowship to prepare a critical edition on Boccaccio's "Docameron," and Fine will do creative work in musical composition. Statistical regularities in marketing will be studied in a quantitative report by Zipf...