Word: boccaccio
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DONA FLOR AND HER TWO HUSBANDS, by Jorge Amado. A leisurely, sensuous tale of a virtuous lady and her conjugal rites -as vivid and bawdy as Boccaccio...
DONA FLOR AND HER TWO HUSBANDS, by Jorge Amado. A leisurely, sensuous tale of a virtuous lady and her conjugal rites -as vivid and bawdy as Boccaccio...
...faith and joy in life that could comprehend both genuine piety and unabashed lustiness. Besides many casts of the reliefs from the doors of St. Peter's, and other examples of his well-known religious works, there are lusty compositions of embracing lovers in the spirit of Boccaccio, sensuous studies of Inge in the nude, and a 1967 bust of her that has the graceful serenity of a Donatello Madonna...
...compare art works of Ingres and Boucher to "playmates"? That is like comparing Mickey Spillane to Boccaccio. And of the starlets you mention, not one has a tenth of the beauty or acting ability of a Garbo or a Moreau...
Playboy was spicy but hardly shocking ?long-forgotten efforts by John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell, Somerset Maugham, Robert Ruark. Playboy also dipped into the ribald classics; despite constant mining, the Boccaccio and De Maupassant vein is still running strong. In the early days, name writers shunned Playboy. Today, Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tynan, Herbert Gold, Ray Bradbury and Ken Purdy regularly provide respectable material. This upgrading of fiction is largely due to Auguste Comte Spectorsky,* 56, who was hired from NBC by Hefner to bring some New York know-how and sophistication (a favorite Playboy word) to the magazine...