Boccaccio's Decameron

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Meaning 10 stories each day during a period of 10 days. I did read this book once when I first went back to school at UMass/Boston in 1986. And, amazingly enough, it took me two minutes to find the book in my man cage’s book shelf. Now, however, the book is making a comeback of sort in France because of its reference to the XIV century pest pandemonic.

Resouces

  • Decameron-19, a site with a daily reading of the stories by various actors in several languages.
  • Article de Mediapart, the article in which the Web site listed above is mentioned as well as a critique of both the original and the recent revival.
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