Giovanni Boccaccio’s (1313-1375) Decameron

“If Love were free from jealousie,
I know no Lady living,
Could have lesse heart-greeving,
Or live so happily as I.”

Look up these Subject Headings using a Browse Search in the DCAD Library catalog:
BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI, 1313-1375. DECAMERONE.
BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI, 1313-1375.–STUDY AND TEACHING. Black Death–England–Fiction.
Disease Outbreaks–history.
Plague–Europe–History–Fiction.
Plague–history.
Storytelling–Fiction.

PQ4272 .E5 A357 1977
The Decamero: a new translation: 21 novelle, contemporary reactions, modern criticism by Giovanni Boccaccio (selected, translated, and edited by Mark Musa and Peter E. Bondanella)

PQ4287 .A77 2000
Approaches to teaching Boccaccio’s Decameron edited by James H. McGregor

PS3557.A7155 D4 1986
The decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio with an English adaptation by C. Gariano

VIDEO PQ4273.7 .T3 1991
Tales from the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio produced and directed by Esme Solnick for Channel 4 by Celeste Productions Ltd.  Presents 6 of Giovanni Boccaccio’s original stories, adapted in verse by Roger Woddis using shadow puppets to tell the stories.  Contents: Desire for drink: seventh day, fourth story — Holier than thou: ninth day, second story — Beauty of Bologna: seventh day, seventh story — Theme and variation: seventh day, first story — Cross purposes: fifth day, tenth story — Pestle and mortar: eighth day, second story.

Author’s epilogue:
“Most noble damsels, for whose solace I addressed me to this long and toilsome task, meseems that, aided by the Divine grace, the bestowal whereof I impute to the efficacy of your pious prayers, and in no wise to merits of mine, I have now brought this work to the full and perfect consummation which in the outset thereof I promised you. Wherefore, it but remains for me to render, first to God, and then to you, my thanks, and so to give a rest to my pen and weary hand.”

Pier Paolo Pasolini – The Decameron (1971)

http://youtu.be/WeQHATMzlUw (2:19 clip)

Pier Paolo Pasolini – Il Decameron (1971) FILM COMPLETO
(1:46:18 entire film)

Online resources:

Free full-text online:
The Decameron, Volume I http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3726 and Volume II http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13102 translated by J. M. (James Macmullen) Rigg

The Decameron http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23700 translated by John Payne

The Decameron http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/basis/decameron.txt

The Decameron Web in Italian and English courtesy of Brown University http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/index.php

“Few great books like the Decameron have shaped our very notion of storytelling and its crucial role in the negotiation and production of shared social and cultural values. In its hundred stories, shared in ten days by ten young people escaping the Plague in mid-14th-century Florence, it combines sheer entertainment with a meaningful humanistic message. A tribute to human ingenuity, an epic masterpiece of a rising, dynamic mercantile society that pursues pleasure while being threatened by sudden extinction, the Decameron can be read as a transgressive and escapist manual of behavior as well as a breviary of moral predicaments intended for a secular, unprejudiced reader… The guiding question of our project is how contemporary informational technology can facilitate, enhance and innovate the complex cognitive and learning activities involved in reading a late medieval literary text like Boccaccio’s Decameron.”

Giovanni Boccaccio - Opera Omnia
http://digilander.libero.it/il_boccaccio/translate_english/index.html
Summary
1313 – Birth
1344 – Elegy of Madonna Fiammetta
1351 – Decameron
         Proem
         First day
         Second day
         Third day
         Fourth day
         Fifth day
         Sixth day
         Seventh day
         Eighth day
         Ninth day
         Tenth day
         Conclusion
1375 – Death