Decameron

The Decameron is one of the inspirations for Rain Village.

Rain Village by Carolyn Turgeon : Questions 2006

Boccaccio's Decameron is what it is really about. posted by Dr. Richard Scott Nokes at 9: 45 AM

Halloween and the Decameron Richard Nokes 2005

Boccaccio's Decameron is what it is really about. posted by Dr. Richard Scott Nokes at 9: 45 AM

Archive 2005-10-01 Richard Nokes 2005

Boccaccio's Decameron is a collection of tales collected ca. 1350, introduced by a frame narrative in which the plague of 1348 leads a group of aristocratic ladies and gentlemen to flee the city of Florence for the refuge of country villas, where they tell the stories of which the collection consists.

Note: Boccaccio 2002

One of the novels in the Decameron is founded on a very general opinion in Italy that an amorous connexion between a compadre and commadre partook almost of the nature of incest.

The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre 1855

The Decameron is a work of fiction, and in it he describes how, in 1348, ten young people leave Florence in order to escape the plague.

June 2004 Michael Allen 2004

The Decameron is a work of fiction, and in it he describes how, in 1348, ten young people leave Florence in order to escape the plague.

Archive 2004-06-01 Michael Allen 2004

The Decameron is a work of fiction, and in it he describes how, in 1348, ten young people leave Florence in order to escape the plague.

Boccaccio and all that Michael Allen 2004

'It is a surprise to many modern readers,' remarks Virginia Brown, 'to learn that Giovanni Boccaccio's most popular work, the collection of one hundred stories known as the Decameron, is by no means typical of his writings.

Boccaccio and the Ladies Parks, Tim 2002

It is said that Chaucer borrowed the form of his famous tales from a book called The Decameron, written by an Italian poet named Boccaccio.

English Literature for Boys and Girls