Boccaccio's

It may come across as borderline sadistic, but Boccaccio's yarn is an updating of the Greek myth of Medea, another female victim who lost her marriage and her position, but who murdered her own children in revenge.

Rodney Punt: Griselda in Peter Sellars Production at Santa Fe Opera Rodney Punt 2011

It may come across as borderline sadistic, but Boccaccio's yarn is an updating of the Greek myth of Medea, another female victim who lost her marriage and her position, but who murdered her own children in revenge.

Rodney Punt: Griselda in Peter Sellars Production at Santa Fe Opera Rodney Punt 2011

Some might, like evacuees from the black plague in Boccaccio's "Decameron," tell stories about how it used to be, how humans behave.

Craig K. Comstock: Will Our Species Survive Another Century? Craig K. Comstock 2011

The story of the long-suffering Griselda, Queen of Thessaly, comes from Boccaccio's Decameron also retold in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

Rodney Punt: Griselda in Peter Sellars Production at Santa Fe Opera Rodney Punt 2011

Some might, like evacuees from the black plague in Boccaccio's "Decameron," tell stories about how it used to be, how humans behave.

Craig K. Comstock: Will Our Species Survive Another Century? Craig K. Comstock 2011

One entry in "Stories to Caution the World," the 17th-century collection of Chinese vernacular tales sometimes compared to Boccaccio's "Decameron," is simply titled "Qiao Yanjie's Concubine Ruins the Family."

The Perils of Polygamy Raymond Zhong 2011

"Griselda" is based on the final story of Giovanni Boccaccio's "Decameron"; Vivaldi had Carlo Goldoni adapt an existing libretto by Apostolo Zeno.

The Tests of Patience Heidi Waleson 2011

The Walters's curator, Martina Bagnoli, says relic-mongering was a constant source of fraud; she cites Boccaccio's tale of Fra' Cipolla in "The Decameron," about a monk who cons his audience with spurious relics.

Art review: Splendor abounds in museum's display of grisly holy relics in Baltimore 2011

Next from Heller, Boccaccio's "D Cameron". a series of tall tales by exiled spinmeister Andy Coulson, all in the form of overheard conversations.

Hugh Muir's diary 2011

The story of the long-suffering Griselda, Queen of Thessaly, comes from Boccaccio's Decameron also retold in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

Rodney Punt: Griselda in Peter Sellars Production at Santa Fe Opera Rodney Punt 2011