Word: decameron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...School for Husbands" is one of those witty, urbane, and inconsequential comedies that the English do so well. With a story that might have come out of the "Decameron", and a capable cast headed by Rex Harrison, Director Swanson has blended a screen cocktail that is pleasantly aphrodisiacal (in a nice way, of course...
...TRANQUIL HEART - Catherine Carswell-Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio, by his first female biographer, who emphasizes not only his authorship of the Decameron 600 years ago but his importance as a political figure...
...source books in the display include such works as Holinshed's Chronicles, edition of 1577, the Countess of Pembroke's own copy of Sidney's "Arcadia," with original bindings, the Florrio Translation of Montaigne's Essays, and Boccaccio's "Decameron," published...
...English, which he studied to good purpose in. his years in the U. S. Author Neagoe's sturdy language fits his Rumanian senses well but seems awkwardly foreign when he writes of the U. S. One story ("Gavrila's Confession") is as good as anything in the Decameron, has the same flavor of good-natured tolerance: a peasant wife, caught misbehaving by her husband, persuades him he is possessed by an evil imagination, makes him go to the priest to confess the whole thing...
Most valuable of the books on display is a Petrarch "incunabulum Trionfl", printed in Venice in 1497. Also included are an early edition of Boccaccio's "Decameron", printed at Brescia in 1536, and a very rare edition of Boccaccio's "Thirteen Delectable Questions", one of the earliest translations of Boccaccio to be printed in England, published in London...