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For I came across this book, 'A Translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Life of Dante' by G.R. Carpenter. It’s such a pretty binding I couldn’t help but share. It's bound in stamped vellum over boards—fancy! Learn more here: https://t.co/UNaLBXh9iS

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2022-07-15


Boccaccio’s The Decameron, a frame story comprising 100 tales, told by a group of 10 young friends, over a period of 10 days. The are sheltering in a secluded villa on the outskirts of Florence, to avoid the risk of the Black Death.
🎨JWWaterhouse

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2022-05-26

John William Waterhouse born in 1849, the painting depicts the Italian a group of young people who fled to the countryside to escape the plague in Florence in 1348, amuse themselves by Some things never change!

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2021-04-06

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

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2020-04-15

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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2020-03-16

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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2019-09-16

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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2019-04-11