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Boccaccio: Selections from The Decameron

Read by Stephen Thorne, and full cast

Boccaccio: Selections from The Decameron

Boccaccio: Selections from The Decameron

Read by Stephen Thorne, and full cast

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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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Giovanni Boccaccio: Selections from The Decameron
Work length4:40:58
1348, Florence. The Plague
Track length9:50
The funeral customs are abandoned
Track length6:20
Seven young women in the church of Santa Maria Novella
Track length8:26
Three young men come into the church and Pampinea proposes
Track length6:43
Dioneo’s tale of a young monk attracted by a pretty girl, and is espied by the Abbot
Track length6:55
Panfilo’s tale of the misfortunes of a beautiful Saracen girl, whose beauty...
Track length6:52
Pericone became daily more ardent
Track length6:14
Alatiel courted by Prince of the Morea in Corinth
Track length6:25
War became more imminent
Track length6:12
Antioco and his merchant friend, and Antigono of Famagusta
Track length8:58
Alatiel tells her father of her adventures
Track length5:46
The company moves on
Track length5:48
Pampinea’s tale of Agilulf, King of the Lombards, his Queen Theodilinda and the groom…
Track length10:15
Fiammetta tells a tragic tale of the rage of Tancred, Prince of Salerno spent on Ghismonda and her lover Guiscardo
Track length14:02
The Prince gives the command to kill
Track length6:26
Pampinea lightens the mood of the party with a story of a monkish seduction
Track length12:18
Gossip gains control
Track length7:13
Filomena tells a tale of unswerving love
Track length8:37
Eliza tells of pure and honest love of Angolella and Pietro
Track length14:02
Filistrato recounts the balcony consummation of the love of Ricciardo and Caterina
Track length12:27
Dioneo reports on a wife consigned to a marriage to a man who prefers men
Track length15:10
Filistrato on the rights of women
Track length5:27
Dioneo becomes king and leads the party to a new home
Track length1:19
Filistrato with the story of the wine butt
Track length7:48
Filomena tells a knightly tale of love
Track length12:21
Fiammetta enjoys the revenge of one friend upon another
Track length7:49
Emilia shows how easily a doctor can be a fool for all his learning
Track length9:44
The doctor asks to join the club
Track length13:13
The doctor goes to the tombs
Track length6:00
Panfilo imagines a busy night at an inn on the road
Track length8:31
Dioneo tells of patient Griselda and her testing husband Gualtieri
Track length7:41
Gualtieri sends his daughter away
Track length6:27
Gualtieri announces he will marry again
Track length7:08
The story telling is at an end, and the company part
Track length2:31
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