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The Decameron (/ d ɪ ˈ k æ m ər ə n /; Italian: Decameron [deˈkaːmeron, dekameˈrɔn,-ˈron] or Decamerone [dekameˈroːne]), subtitled Prince Galehaut (Old Italian: Prencipe Galeotto [ˈprentʃipe ɡaleˈɔtto, ˈprɛn-]) and sometimes nicknamed l'Umana commedia ("the Human comedy", as it was Boccaccio that dubbed Dante Alighieri's Comedy "Divine"), is a collection of short stories by ...
The Decameron is an American medieval black comedy television miniseries created by Kathleen Jordan. It was inspired by the 14th century Italian short-story collection The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. It was released on Netflix on July 25, 2024 to generally favorable reviews.
Tuscan pronunciation avoids effort and harshness.” Salviati saw the Decameron primarily as an authoritative linguistic reference, so edited it into what he and his associates believed were the ‘proper’ forms. [19] Salviati examined a number of manuscript versions of the Decameron but relied principally on the Mannelli Codex.
The Decameron (Italian: Il Decameron) is a 1971 anthology film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, based on the 14th-century allegory by Giovanni Boccaccio.It is the first film of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life, the others being The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights.
“The Decameron” is a 14th-century short story collection framed as stories within a story. In the frame narrative, a group of Italian nobles flee to a country villa in an attempt to escape the ...
The Decameron, Netflix’s new show about a group of 14th century Italians—both nobles and working class folk—who are hunkered down together at the fancy countryside Villa Santa to wait out ...
Dioneo tells the final (and possibly most retold) story of the Decameron. Although Boccaccio was the first to record the story, he almost certainly did not invent it. Petrarch mentions having heard it many years before, but not from Boccaccio. Therefore, it was probably already circulating in oral tradition when the Decameron was written.
“Fourteen Days” follows a cast of characters trapped in their New York apartment building during lockdowns in the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic.