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Boccaccio: Selections from The Decameron

Read by Stephen Thorne, and full cast

This release includes a digital booklet

Contents

Giovanni Boccaccio: Selections from The Decameron

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1348, Florence. The Plague

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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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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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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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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

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