Giovanni Boccaccio
Author
Series
Insel-Bücherei ; nr. 275
Publisher
Insel-Verlag
Pub. Date
[between 1920 and 1929?]
Language
Deutsch
10) Decameron
Author
Series
Publisher
Societa tipografica de'Classici italiani
Pub. Date
1803.
Language
Italiano
11) Selections from the Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio: including all the passages hitherto suppressed
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
1865.
Language
English
13) Il Decameron
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Italiano
Description
Pasolini's rendition of 8 of Boccaccio's tales. Includes lusty nuns who perform sexual "miracles," a cheating wife with a head for business, a dying con artist attempting a heavenly swindle, young lovers caught with their pants down, a servant who loses his head for love and a gullible farmer who tries to turn his wife into a mare.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
When the wealthy and now-widowed woman whom the impoverished Federigo has always loved invites herself to his home for dinner tomake a life-or-death request of him, she learns, ironically, hehas already sacrificed all he had in his love for her.
Series
Film Movement ; 14, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Italiano
Description
"Florence, Thirteenth Century. The 'Black Death' is spreading. Ten kids (three boys and seven girls) decide to escape and to seek shelter in the countryside, away from the horrible consequences of the plague. In order to kill time, each kid tells a particular story, but no matter how different their stories may be, they all have one aspect in common: love. A love that will help the characters cope with the numerous uncertainties of a very arduous...
17) The little hours
Publisher
Gunpowder & Sky
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns in the Middle Ages. Introduced as a deaf blind man, he must fight to hold his cover as the nuns try to resist temptation.
19) Boccaccio 70
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Italiano
Description
"Four satires on morality, prudery, and hypocrisy. Monicelli's "Renzo e Luciana" is a frothy tale of young love and office politics in the big city. Fellini's notorious "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio" features Ekberg as a busty model in a milk advertisement whose image begins to haunt an aging prude. Visconti's "Il Lavoro" stars Romy Schneider as a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs, and De Sica's "La Riffa" raffles off a night...