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BOCCACCIO: Decameron (The) (Abridged)
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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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Selections from The Decameron
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1348, Florence. The Plague
00:09:50
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The funeral customs are abandoned
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Seven young women in the church of Santa Maria Novella
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Three young men come into the church and Pampinea proposes
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Dioneo’s tale of a young monk attracted by a pretty girl, and is espied by the Abbot
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Panfilo’s tale of the misfortunes of a beautiful Saracen girl, whose beauty...
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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 Famagusta
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Alatiel tells her father of her adventures
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Disc
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Selections from The Decameron
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The company moves on
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Pampinea’s tale of Agilulf, King of the Lombards, his Queen Theodilinda and the groom…
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Fiammetta tells a tragic tale of the rage of Tancred, Prince of Salerno spent on Ghismonda and her lover Guiscardo
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The Prince gives the command to kill
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Pampinea lightens the mood of the party with a story of a monkish seduction
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Gossip gains control
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Filomena tells a tale of unswerving love
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Disc
3
Selections from The Decameron
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Eliza tells of pure and honest love of Angolella and Pietro
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Filistrato recounts the balcony consummation of the love of Ricciardo and Caterina
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Dioneo reports on a wife consigned to a marriage to a man who prefers men
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Filistrato on the rights of women
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Dioneo becomes king and leads the party to a new home
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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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Disc
4
Selections from The Decameron
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Fiammetta enjoys the revenge of one friend upon another
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Emilia shows how easily a doctor can be a fool for all his learning
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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 road
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Dioneo tells of patient Griselda and her testing husband Gualtieri
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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 part
00:02:31
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Total Playing Time:
04:40:51
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Author(s):
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Reader(s):
Gallagher, Teresa; Goode, James; Hayes, Polly; Keeble, Jonathan; O'Neal, Siri; Pettit, Alison; Philpott, Daniel; Rainsford, Nickie; Thorne, Stephen
Label: Naxos AudioBooks Genre: Great Epics and Tales Period: Medieval
Catalogue No:
NA438012
Barcode:
9789626343807
Physical Release: 06/2006
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