Word: boccaccio
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...story of the bartered bride is older than Boccaccio, but this Italian retelling of the tale-the best of the film's four briskly lubricous episodes-is red-peppered with high spirits and low jinks. It provides much amusement for the young in gland, but more mature moviegoers may feel surfeited by 106 minutes of unadulterated adultery...
Married. Romy Schneider, 27, Austria's sugar-and-ice gift to the movies (Boccaccio 70); and Harry Haubenstock, 44, German actor-director; he for the second time; in St.-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France...
...surprisingly, Gina's Cupid is the pick of the lot. The other sexcerpts look to Boccaccio chiefly for borrowed glamour. Cupid, updated from an irreverent Decameron tale, retains the full flavor of its source, and suggests that the thing missing from most movies about sex is a master's touch...
...Germany, The Netherlands, Spain and Greece all have recently undertaken or completed such projects, most of them inspired by the Oxford English Dictionary, whose final volume was published in 1928. Even with the aid of IBM computers, which will record and digest words from such great Italian writers as Boccaccio, Petrarch, Machiavelli, Pirandello, Moravia-and Dante -the job is expected to take 50 years...
...different from the realists of sex like Zola, the sentimentalists of sex like D. H. Lawrence, the poetic demons of sex like Baudelaire. They are different from the good old-fashioned pornographers like Fanny Hill's Cleland or the masters of bawdry from Ovid to Aretino, Rabelais, Boccaccio and (in an off moment) Mark Twain. However unconventional, these writers found delight in sex; however critical of human folly, they were partisans of mankind. The new immoralists attack not only society but man and sex itself. Their writings add up to homosexual nihilism, and what Fanny Hill would have thought...