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Relaxing with music. Boccaccio's Decameron - Garden Scene from the Introduction by Edward John Poynter, 1859.

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2022-09-23

The Pot of Basil (1818), by John Keats, is adapted from Decameron (IV, 5). It tells the tale of Isabella, whose family intend to marry her to "some high noble & his olive trees". Instead, she falls for Lorenzo, her brothers' employee. 🪴

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2022-03-11

Medieval women painting medieval women


(from manuscripts of Boccaccio's On Famous Women)

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2021-03-08

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Hey, Giovanni Boccaccio (Renaissance Italian writer/poet/humanist) was born in 1313!
Tales from Boccaccio's most famous work, THE DECAMERON, have been adapted many times, most recently in the hilarious & weird 🧈🧈🧈🧈Seen it?

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2020-07-30

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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2019-11-08

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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2019-03-09

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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2019-03-09