Word: decameron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...saintly Moon Lady, separated from her pious young son by invading Tartars, is hustled offstage before she can become tiresome. Her place is taken by a crew of thieves, usurers, pimps and powder faces (prostitutes) who add up to a kind of road-company Decameron. The fat lecher Pi, for instance, lusts after the beautiful Silver Vase, a pubescent virgin being carefully tended by Lady Li, a flower-garden proprietor (brothelkeeper). Cash-and-Carry, a young wastrel, volunteers to act as go-between, but what he goes between are Silver Vase's sheets. Lady Li, who has been giving...
Giovanni (Decameron] Boccaccio, whose medieval priests seemed seldom far from a girl or a glass, would have been surprised at what happened to the Rev. Lino Gussoni in Rome last week. Born and raised in Italy but a longtime U.S. citizen. Father Gussoni. 39, was on leave from a welfare post in New York City's archdiocese, living in Rome for his health (a throat condition). After dinner with three lay friends from the U.S., he dropped in for a nightcap at a relatively unexciting nightspot, Club 84. "We're all Americans," said one of them. "We didn...
...turned out a masterful and hilarious cock-and-ball story. Like the fabliaux, the play is "mosts pour la gent faire rire"; it embodies the English version of l'esprit gaulois. Merry Wives certainly joins the company of the other classic representatives of the fabliau tradition--Boccaccio's Decameron, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and Balzac's Contes Drolatiques. So cease, ye carpers...
...carries a long foreword by Editor Louis Untermeyer defending the record, and the book from which it is drawn, from a nonexistent attack by outraged moralists. Britain's Savoyard Martyn Green gives a chirruping reading of selected passages from Ovid's Art of Love, Boccaccio's Decameron, Benjamin Franklin's Advice on the Choice of a Mistress, as well as a clutch of risque limericks...
...suitable for presentation. Censorship further plagued the University when several orders of books for French and other foreign literature courses were forbidden to be shipped to the Phillips Book Store because they were "obscene." Among the restricted works: Rousseau's Confessions, Rabelais's Oeuvres, and Boccaccio's Decameron...