Decamerone

Boccaccio's "Decamerone," except that the story-tellers are fish-wives going up the Thames in a boat.

A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

Boccaccio's "Decamerone," with which he may merely have had in common the sources of several of his "Canterbury Tales."

Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880

If this means that Chaucer owed to the "Decamerone" the idea of including a number of stories in the framework of a single narrative, it implies too much.

Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880

One test of the distinction is this: what reader of the "Decamerone" connects any of the novels composing it with the personality of the particular narrator, or even cares to remember the grouping of the stories as illustrations of fortunate or unfortunate, adventurous or illicit, passion?

Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880

There is nothing really dramatic in the schemes of the "Decamerone" or of the numerous imitations which it called forth, from the French "Heptameron" and the Neapolitan "Pentamerone" down to the German "Phantasus."

Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880

But while in the "Decamerone" the framework in its relation to the stories is of little or no significance, in the "Canterbury Tales" it forms one of the most valuable organic elements in the whole work.

Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880

"They please the ladies, you know," said Brantome, crossing over to the Duchesse de Guise, who held the "Decamerone" in her hand.

Catherine De Medici Honor�� de Balzac 1824

Thus the "Decamerone" was appearing much earlier than we suppose.

Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Isaac Disraeli 1807

The Brown Italian Studies department has created a bilingual online version of Boccaccio's Decamerone that has been expanding since its beginnings ten years ago and particularly since it was awarded a two-year grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1999.

languagehat.com: THE DECAMERON WEB. 2004

In Boccaccio's Decamerone and, above all, in the Tuscan novelle, artists appear mainly as the perpetrators of entertaining and burlesque prac - tical jokes.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas RUDOLF WITTKOWER 1968