Word: boccaccio
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...Satirist Aubrey Menen (The Prevalence of Witches, Dead Man in the Silver Market) slyly milks a sacred cow for laughs. His freewheeling and irreverent Ramayana is a mock epic that owes less to its original author, the Hindu poet Valmiki, than it does to Voltaire's Candide and Boccaccio's Decameron...
...century; in Manhattan. Leaving the Metropolitan Opera, Soprano Scheff became a popular star overnight singing Kiss Me Again in Broadway's opening of Victor Herbert's Mile. Modiste (1905), earned up to $4,000 a week in such musical plays as The Two Roses, Fatinitza and Boccaccio...
...Gibbon, writing in the Decline and Fall, scornfully dismissed them as "the triumph of barbarism and religion." - Dawson rates Langland's contemporary, Chaucer, as more of a courtly storyteller who "took the world as he found it," very like his Italian opposite number. Boccaccio. Not so Langland, who wrote bitterly of his times...
Decameron Nights. Spicy stories by Boccaccio; with Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan (TIME...
Decameron Nights. Spicy stories by Boccaccio; with Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan (TIME...