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BOCCACCIO: The Decameron (selections) (Alison Pettit/ Daniel Philpott/ James Goode/ Jonathan Keeble/ Nickie Rainsford/ Nicolas Soames/ Polly Hayes/ Siri O'Neal/ Stephen Thorne/ Teresa Gallagher) (Naxos Audio Books: NA438012)
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Here are sixteen tales from one of the great works of the Middle Ages. Ten young people have fled for a while the terrible effects of the Black Death in Florence and, in an idyllic setting, tell a series of brilliant stories, by turns humorous, bawdy, tragic and provocative. This celebration of physical and sexual vitality is Boccaccio's answer to the sublime other-worldliness of Dante's Divine Comedy...
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1348, Florence. The Plague |
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The funeral customs are abandoned |
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Seven young women in the church of Santa Maria Nov |
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Three young men come into the church and Pampinea |
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Dioneo’s tale of a young monk attracted by a prett |
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Panfilo’s tale of the misfortunes of a beautiful S |
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Pericone became daily more ardent |
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Alatiel courted by Prince of the Morea in Corinth |
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War became more imminent |
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Antioco and his merchant friend, and Antigono of F |
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Alatiel tells her father of her adventures |
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The company moves on |
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Pampinea’s tale of Agilulf, King of the Lombards, |
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Fiammetta tells a tragic tale of the rage of Tancr |
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The Prince gives the command to kill |
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Pampinea lightens the mood of the party with a sto |
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Gossip gains control |
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Filomena tells a tale of unswerving love |
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Eliza tells of pure and honest love of Angolella a |
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Filistrato recounts the balcony consummation of th |
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Dioneo reports on a wife consigned to a marriage t |
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Filistrato on the rights of women |
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Dioneo becomes king and leads the party to a new h |
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Filistrato with the story of the wine butt |
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Filomena tells a knightly tale of love |
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Fiammetta enjoys the revenge of one friend upon an |
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Emilia shows how easily a doctor can be a fool for |
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The doctor asks to join the club |
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The doctor goes to the tombs |
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Panfilo imagines a busy night at an inn on the roa |
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Dioneo tells of patient Griselda and her testing h |
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Gualtieri sends his daughter away |
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Gualtieri announces he will marry again |
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The story telling is at an end, and the company pa |
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