Dass Liebe auch immer eine Frage der Perspektive ist, zeigt die Geschichte «Der verzauberte Brinbaum». Der Liebhaber einer verheirateten Frau verlang drei ungeheuerliche Liebesbeweise, da ist weibliche Raffinesse gefragt … Wolf Frass liest diese Novelle aus Giovanni Boccaccios weltbekannten «Dekameron».
Daß Liebe auch eine Frage der Perspektive ist, zeigt die Geschichte vom verzauberten Birnbaum. Der Liebhaber einer verheirateten Frau verlangt drei ungeheuerliche Liebesbeweise, die diese auch erbringt. Daß sich der Gatte am Ende auf einem Birnbaum wiederfindet und der Angetrauten beim Liebesspiel mit dem Liebhaber zusehen zu muß, erklärt sich nur mit weiblicher Raffinesse …
Pinuccio ist in Niccolosa verliebt, deshalb sucht er nach einer passenden Gelegenheit sich ihrer Liebe zu erfreuen. Pinuccio und sein Freund Adriano bitten Niccolosas Vater die beiden zu beherbergen, da sie von einer angeblichen Reise von der Nacht überrascht wurden. Nachts legt sich Pinuccio dann zu Niccolosa, aber nicht nur er tauscht sein Bett, es kommt zu allerlei Verwechslung … Wolf Frass liest die Novelle aus Giovanni Boccaccios weltbekannten «Dekameron».
This is a translation of Boccaccio`s «Il libro di Difinizioni», first translated into English by «H.G.» (probably Henry Grantham) in London, 1566. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend, student, and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist and the author of a number of notable works including the Decameron, On Famous Women, and his poetry in the Italian vernacular. Boccaccio is particularly notable for his dialogue, of which it...
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The Decameron – Decamerone, subtitled Prince Galehaut is a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375). The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men sheltering in a secluded villa just outside Florence to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city. Boccaccio probably conceived the Decameron after the epidemic of 1348, and completed it by 1353. The various tales of love...
John Payne's translation of The Decameron was originally published in a private printing for The Villon Society, London in 1886. Comprised of 100 novellas told by ten men and women over a ten day journey fleeing plague-infested Florence, the Decameron is an allegorical work famous for its bawdy portrayals of everyday life, its searing wit and mockery, and its careful adherence to a framed structure. The word «decameron» is derived from the Greek and means «ten days». Boccaccio drew on many...
Written in the middle of the 14th century as the Bubonic Plague decimated the population of Europe, «The Decameron» is a satirically allegorical collection of stories by the Italian author Boccaccio. The refined frame narrative of this work allows for ten Florentine women and men to flee the city and take refuge in a country villa of Italy. In the ten days they are to stay, each of them is to tell a story a day, the themes of which are determined by the elected king or queen for that day. Most...
John Payne's translation of The Decameron was originally published in a private printing for The Villon Society, London in 1886. Comprised of 100 novellas told by ten men and women over a ten day journey fleeing plague-infested Florence, the Decameron is an allegorical work famous for its bawdy portrayals of everyday life, its searing wit and mockery, and its careful adherence to a framed structure. The word «decameron» is derived from the Greek and means «ten days». Boccaccio drew on many...