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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
when free speech was a perilous exercise, and when to declaim against vice and folly was to court personal risk, the fable was invented, or resorted to, by the moralist as a circuitous method of achieving the end he desired to reach—the