...amor può troppo, più che ne vuoi né io possiamo..Boccaccio ne sapeva...🤗😅fantastica citazione carissima Antonella💖💖💖😍e bellissima la bella dame che si ripara dal sole con suo ombrellino🏖👏👍🔝grz cara amica BPom a te e amici
Cecile William Rea

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‘Boccaccio and the Have Been doing the rounds’ https://t.co/S3ZMKUtsuB

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Amor può troppo più che né voi né io possiamo.

- Giovanni Boccaccio, dal Decameron (IV giornata, novella I)



Decameron

👨‍🎨 John William Waterhouse



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How Can Boccaccio’s 14th Century Decameron Help Us Live Through COVID-19? https://t.co/TpnL1CURdx

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Favorite design today: Decameron illustrations [original Ludovico Ceffini edition; 1400]
1. Giovanni Boccaccio the author
2. The Black Death riding through Florence
3. The friends gather at the Basilica di Santa Maria Novella
4. The stories are told in the garden of a villa

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Our was also mentioned in one of the most famous literary works of the Middle Ages, the by In the description of the a land of luxury and pleasures the great poet described a "mountain of grated Parmesan cheese". continue 3)

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For some plague reading during your self-quarantine, one can hardly recommend anything more highly than Giovanni Boccaccio’s 𝐷𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑛, especially in the 1620 translation attributed to John Florio (Queen Elizabeth’s Italian teacher). 📖 https://t.co/R42Bce23CG

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For some reason, I’ve been thinking about Boccaccio lately. Maybe it’s time for a little film festival.

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The Epicurean philosopher Leonce (Leontion) trying to read philosophy while being embraced. History treated her harshly for daring to criticise Theophrastus.
Royal 16 G V; Giovanni Boccaccio, De claris mulieribus in a French translation; France, N.; c.1440; f.74r

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Well, well, well, the are doing a piece inspired by Italian author and all around cheeky man of his time Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron.

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Day 16 Italy (2): In Italy in the early 1970s there was a boom in movies based on Boccaccio’s work and life. The best is Pasolini’s Decameron, which is set in the same Medieval era the stories were written in. Ribald or raunchy? It’s a bit of both.

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inspired by 's . 10 youths escape the Black Death ravaging XV century Europe. In a lovely country mansion they tell tales to pass the time. Daily themes are decided by the appointed group's Queen or King for that day...

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regn-scūr, m.n: a shower of rain, a shower. (RAYN-shoor) Image: Croesus in John Lydgate’s trans. of Boccaccio’s Fall of Princes; England (probably Suffolk), c. 1450-60; MS Harley 1766, f. 133r.

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Foresti's version didn't include a few of the Boccaccio's lives, but added many more. Many of these were Saints... https://t.co/UXIwfm1Hog

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Boccaccio's original work featured around 100 lives, mainly from classical myth and history (though he started with Eve). He wrote about goddesses and mythological figures like like Circe, Medea, Arachne, Thisbe, and Penthesilea. https://t.co/UXIwfm1Hog

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- per il piacere degli occhi - gli affreschi dipinti da Boccaccio Boccaccino nel duomo di Cremona tra il 1514 e il 1516.

Ingiustamente poco noti!

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Jornada I, novela quinta: "Cómo una dama se supo defender de un rey que la requería en ausencia de su marido"

"La usanza en esta tierra es tal, que en tanto que el marido es fuera de su casa, nunca su mujer consiente gallo alguno en la casa hasta que él vuelva"

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Resumen visual de los primeros cuatro relatos de la jornada primera del Las ilustraciones pertenecen a una versión manuscrita de la obra datada en el primer tercio del realizada por Ludovico Ceffini.

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"Contar cien novelas, fábulas, parábolas o historias que relatadas fueron durante diez días, en el seno de una noble compañía de siete damas y tres hombres mozos"

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"Y en esas novelas veránse gratos y acerbos casos de amor y otros acontecimientos de varia fortuna, tanto de los tiempos modernos como de los antiguos"

[Imagen: Sir Edward John Poynter: "El Decamerón de Boccaccio" 1859]

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