Word: decameron
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...will refer to the Decameron of Boccaccio, Seventh Day, Fourth Story, you shall find this tale narrated exactly as above; the characters being Tofano and his wife Madam Ghita which makes me think that if this story, related to Mme Celarié is true, then this is a case where history repeated itself, almost verbatim...
...them, but was forced, nevertheless, to refuse admittance for the book. He said that no matter what he might think, he could not do anything about letting the book into the country. Another unusual case is that in which a four hundred year old edition of the "Decameron" of Boccaccio was not allowed to come...
...books banned as objectionable by the customs employees are: Casanova's "Memoirs", Balzac's "Les Contes Drolatiques", Rabelais' "Oeuvres", Margueritte's "La Garconne", and "Prostituee", Marguerite de Navarre's "Hentameron", Longas' "Daphnis et Chloe", Galland's "Les Milles et Une Nuits", Rousscau's "Confessions", and Boccaccio's "Decameron...
History and legend are filled with plagues, most horrific of which was the Black Death which scourged Europe in the middle of the Fifteenth Century. When Boccaccio's characters fled Florence in 1438 and spent their exile telling the stories of the Decameron, they thus escaped a swift, nauseous blight which, so the tales run, made dark convulsions of men's faces, twisted tortures of their bodies...
...most strongly. A modest Proposal after the pattern of Swift is very amusing. It is enlivened with sketches portraying the dismal fate of the Harvard Undergraduate if the Proposal is ever taken seriously. A drawing on page 20 reveals some of the difficulties involved in the production of the Decameron. The whole Boccacio household is pressed into service to find some dirt for the use of the head of the family. We are not told what connection this has with the Reading Period, but the inference is obvious...