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in the Italian film The Decameron, stories are told by young men and women trapped in a villa outside Florence to escape the Black Death.
Mukesh Manjunath • The Age Of Heroes: The Incredible World of Telugu Cinema
De Mulieribus Claris
If you're looking for a moral, Boccaccio is rarely your best bet
But, it is well known, what strikes the capricious mind of the poet is not always what affects the mass of readers. Now, while admiring, as others doubtless will admire, the details we have to relate, our main preoccupation concerned a matter to which no one before ourselves had given a thought. D'Artagnan
Alexandre Dumas • The Three Musketeers

In my own diagrams, I’ve marked the beginning of the Renaissance as 1370, but Chris argued it goes back to the 1110s. Maybe the way to think of it is that there were “proto Renaissance figures” emerging for up to 2 centuries before.
... See moreDante Alighieri (1265-1321): Italian poet, writer, and philosopher, best known for his Divine Comedy, which is consid
he was simply an early lover of mankind,