A tale from The Decameron, by John William Waterhouse
This article contains summaries and commentaries of the 100 stories within Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron.
Each story of the Decameron begins with a short heading explaining the plot of the story. The 1903 J. M. Rigg translation headings are used in many of these summaries. Commentary on the tale itself follows.
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article contains summaries and commentaries of the 100 stories within Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron. Each story of the Decameron begins with a short...
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a set of contrary attitudes—contrary to the church and to the nobility. Several of them were reworked by Giovanni Boccaccio for the Decameron and by...
The Decameron around 1349. It is probable that the structures of many of the tales date from earlier in his career, but the choice of a hundred tales and...
alongside other tale collections with similar structures, such as the Decameronof Boccaccio, and particularly Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, with which the...
others, in the Legend of Tristan and Isolde and in Boccaccio's The Decameron. The Taleof Peter and Fevronia served as one of the sources to the Nikolai...
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with Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century, known for The Canterbury Tales. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio was published in 1351, and it influenced European...
of a historical event or biography, to the degree that the available historical research will allow. Other historical dramas are fictionalized tales that...
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