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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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Although the pre-modern European storytelling cycle, found in texts like the Decameron, the Canterbury Tales, and the Heptameron, does seem moribund or dramatically altered in the contemporary West, Louise Erdrich has found an imaginative means of revising and revitalizing it within a Native American context.
Ceremonial healing and the multiple narrative tradition in Louise ... by Rosenberg, Roberta / MELUS
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
I am thinking of Bruno and Buffalmacco in the Decameron, the tricks by Ponzio mentioned in the Cortegiano (2.
The Renaissance novella as justice by Langer, Ulrich / Renaissance Quarterly
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