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    The Decameron (/dɪˈkæmərən/; Italian: Decameron [deˈkaːmeron, dekameˈrɔn, -ˈron] or Decamerone [dekameˈroːne]), subtitled Prince Galehaut (Old Italian:...
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    Giovanni Boccaccio (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    exercised under the banner of experimentalism. His most notable works are The Decameron, a collection of short stories which in the following centuries...
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    G (1351), Decameron Mark JJ (3 April 2020). "Boccaccio on the Black Death: Text & Commentary". World History Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on...
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    Tybalt (category CS1: long volume value)
    Boccaccio's Decameron and a novella by Masuccio Salernitano. Da Porto gave it much of its modern form, including the lovers' names, the rival families...
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    Francesco Straparola. Modeled after Boccaccio's Decameron, it is significant as often being called the first European storybook to contain fairy-tales;...
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    Pier Paolo Pasolini (category Counterculture of the 1960s)
    and a political figure. He is known for directing the movies from Trilogy of Life (The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights). A controversial...
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    Todorov's narrative theory of equilibrium (category CS1: long volume value)
    brother return home. The conclusion sates a desire for resolution, whilst reaffirming the tale’s morality. Todorov states that The Decameron, Arthurian legend...
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  • The Witches – Segment "The Earth Seen from the Moon" Teorema (1968) Il Decameron (1971) I racconti di Canterbury (1972) Il fiore delle Mille e una Notte...
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  • Series 'The Decameron' From Kathleen Jordan, Jenji Kohan". Variety. Retrieved August 18, 2022. Petski, Denise (December 14, 2022). "'The Decameron': Tony...
    247 KB (12,824 words) - 19:00, 25 April 2024
  • Hyperion has the structure of a frame story, similar to Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron. The story weaves the interlocking...
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    Parmesan (category Cheeses with designation of origin protected in the European Union)
    century. It was praised as early as 1348 in the writings of Boccaccio; in the Decameron, he invents a 'mountain, all of grated Parmesan cheese', on which 'dwell...
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    Italy (redirect from The Italian republic)
    as a model for centuries. Equally influential was Boccaccio's The Decameron, one of the most popular collections of short stories ever written. Italian...
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    during his lifetime, such as the Oration in Praise of Florentine Speech (1564) and Remarks on the Language of the Decameron (2 vols, 1584-1586). Salviati...
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  • 14th century in literature (category 14th century in the arts)
    Encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 522. ISBN 978-1-136-77519-2. Giovanni Boccaccio (1893). The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. Lawrence and Bullen. p. 23. Reetzke...
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    posthumously in 1531 in Venice. Da Porto drew on Pyramus and Thisbe, Boccaccio's Decameron, and Salernitano's Mariotto e Ganozza, but it is likely that his story...
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    Boccaccio's Decameron in the latter stages of The City of Ladies. The tales of Ghismonda and Lisabetta, for example, are cited from Boccaccio's Decameron. Boccaccio's...
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    made. Novels portal Bal des Ardents Ghost story The Decameron The Plague (novel) "The Castle of Otranto: The creepy tale that launched gothic fiction". BBC...
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    Archived from the original on 22 April 2019. Retrieved 2 May 2019. "Cymbeline (TV Movie 1982)". IMDb. Retrieved 29 April 2019. "Decameron Web | Texts"...
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    Influence of Italian humanism on Chaucer (category CS1: long volume value)
    Volume 26 of Poetry & life series, p. 50, C.G. Harrap & Company, 1914 Farrell, Thomas J. (2003). "Source or Hard Analogue? Decameron X, 10 and the Clerk's...
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    begin with the three great Italian writers of the 14th century: Dante Alighieri (Divine Comedy), Petrarch (Canzoniere), and Boccaccio (Decameron). Famous...
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