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Other books were bowdlerized, including Boccaccio's Decameron and Castiglione's The Courtier.
A quarter of the tales in The Canterbury Tales parallel a tale in the Decameron, although most of them have closer parallels in other stories.
Even in the Decameron, storytellers are encouraged to stick to the theme decided on for the day.
Equally influential was Boccaccio's The Decameron, one of the most popular collections of short stories ever written.
I esteeme Bocace his Decameron, Rabelais, and the kisses of John the second worth the paines-taking to reade them.
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio contains more parallels to The Canterbury Tales than any other work.
The money will be used to fund the redevelopment of the five-star Decapolis Rapontchombo hotel under the Decameron brand.
The Decameron, by Boccaccio, is notable for its use of a frame story involving individuals who have fled Florence for a secluded villa to escape the Black Death.
When Chaucerians are ready for a more wide-ranging and forceful argument for Chaucer's knowledge of the Decameron, that argument will owe much to this book.
Bergamino in turn reflects the subtle mind and sharp rhetoric of his own commemorator, Filostrato, and perhaps the qualities of the model narrator of the Decameron.
Some scholars thus find it unlikely that Chaucer had a copy of the work on hand, surmising instead that he must have merely read the Decameron at some point.
Another promoter of the Italian language was Boccaccio with his Decameron.
Examples from Classical Literature
He tells us of one of these which he himself had seen in the Introduction to the decameron.
It might have been made into one of the stories of the decameron, but Boccaccio had other designs for it.
The series, designed to equal in number the tales of the decameron, is incomplete.
So begins the series of immortal tales which compose the decameron.
But I have given the subjects of the stories of the decameron elsewhere.
It was the pestilence which gave rise to the decameron of Boccaccio.
But Poggio Gherardo is not the only palace of the decameron.
The same word-play occurs at least once more in the decameron.
Yet you will scarcely find him in all the hundred tales of the decameron.
There was temptation everywhere, as the Decameron alone without the evidence of the other novelle would amply prove.
Bibliographical Decameron, various quotations from, 93, 294 et seq.
Some critics believe that her garden was the scene of The Decameron, which lends it an additional interest, does it not?
Seven of the essays deal primarily with the Decameron, while the other eight emphasize the author's other works, or his interpretations of the works of others.
Perhaps he even met Boccaccio, and it is more than likely that he met Petrarch, another great Italian poet who also retold one of the tales of The Decameron.
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