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...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...
Niqhtmares & Taxes. Born about 1335, shortly before Boccaccio wrote the Decameron, Datini never knew the terrors of high explosives and concentration camps, let alone the menace of the atomic bomb. In their place he had the Black Death, tyranny, piracy, the ruthless brutality of mercenary armies. He was the son of a Prato tavern-keeper; by wise trading and prudent investment over a period of 32 years, he became rich enough to build his international business...
...Prevalence of Witches, Dead Man in the Silver Market) slyly milks a sacred cow for laughs. His freewheeling and irreverent Ramayana is a mock epic that owes less to its original author, the Hindu poet Valmiki, than it does to Voltaire's Candide and Boccaccio's Decameron...
...Decameron Nights. Spicy stories by Boccaccio; with Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan (TIME...