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Decameron, TheCollection of tales by the Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio, brought together 1348-53. Ten young people, fleeing plague-stricken Florence, amuse their fellow travellers by each telling a story on the ten days they spend together. The work had a great influence on English literature, particularly on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Although the pre-modern European storytelling cycle, found in texts like the Decameron, the Canterbury Tales, and the Heptameron, does seem moribund or dramatically altered in the contemporary West, Louise Erdrich has found an imaginative means of revising and revitalizing it within a Native American context. In the Decameron, the term is mentioned first by Neifile, but with regard to the clerical catechism: Giannotto "engaged the most worthy men to instruct [ammaestrare] [Abraam] thoroughly in our faith" (I. I am thinking of Bruno and Buffalmacco in the Decameron, the tricks by Ponzio mentioned in the Cortegiano (2. |
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