Decameron, The

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Decameron, The

tales told by young people taking refuge from the black death ravaging Florence. [Ital. Lit.: Magill II, 231]

See : Disease

Decameron, The

Boccaccio’s bawdy panorama of medieval Italian life. [Ital. Lit.: Bishop, 314–315, 380]

See : Ribaldry

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No references found			In Boccaccio's The Decameron, the work on which Smiley's novel is modelled, each of the 10 characters gets a day on which he or she can dictate the subject of the stories they tell each other. And so to bed by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk In the Decameron, the term is mentioned first by Neifile, but with regard to the clerical catechism: Giannotto "engaged the most worthy men to instruct [ammaestrare] [Abraam] thoroughly in our faith" (I. The modality of moral communication in the Decameron's first day, in ... by Kircher, Timothy / Renaissance Quarterly Centered on the Decameron, the book reaches forward to twentieth-century narrative (e. Adventures in Speech: Rhetoric and Narration in Boccaccio's Decameron by Kirkham, Victoria / Renaissance Quarterly			DEC DEC Alpha DEC Wars deca- decaborane Decade decade box decade bridge decade counter decade scaler Decadence Decadents decagon decahedron decahydrate decahydronaphthalene decal decalcification Decalcomania decalescence Decalin decaliter decalitre Decalogue Decameron Decameron, The decameter decametre decametric wave Decamps, Alexandre Gabriel Decane Decani decani side decanning decanol Decantation decanter decanth larva Decapitation decapod Decapoda Decapolis DeCarava, Roy decarbonize decarboxylase decarboxylate Decarboxylation Decarburization decarburize decastere decastyle			decalescent decalescent Decalin decaliter decaliter decaliter decaliters decaliters decalitre decalitre decalitre decalitre decalitre decalitres decalitres Decalog Decalog Decalog Decalogist Decalogue Decalogue Decalogue Decalogue Society of Lawyers Decals Decals Decaluwe Systems Engineering DECAM Decameron Decameron Decameron Decameron, The decameter decameter decameters decameters Decamethonium Decamethonium bromide decamethylcyclopentasiloxane decametre decametre decametre decametre decametre decametres decametres decametric decametric decametric wave decamp decamp decamped decamped decamping decamping decampment decampment decampments decampments decamps decamps Decamps, Alexandre Gabriel

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