Divine Comedy + Decameron discussion

Here is a new thread for your links on Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron (in any edition).

Thank you Lily!

Boccaccio: THE DECAMERON , "INTRODUCTION"

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source...

Boccaccio's Life and Works



http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Ital...

Casa del Boccaccio in Florence



http://www.casaboccaccio.it/index.html

Only in Italian but with nice little photo galleries of the museum.

Pathways through Literature - Giovanni Bocaccio

Excellent site, both in English & Italian, that presents Boccaccio's life, his work (including a detailed look at the Decameron) and a thematic approach (that covers his work as a copyst and his influence on other artists):

http://www.internetculturale.it/openc...

There are also excellent tracks from the "Decameron. Ballate monodiques de l'Ars Nova Florentine, Auvidis/ Astree, 1980-85" sprinkled throughout the site.

For those interested in Italian lit: the site covers other major writers, including Dante, Petrarca, etc:
http://www.internetculturale.it/openc...

Boccaccio: Autore e Copista

Exhibition at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence (October 2013-January 2014)
http://www.firenzeturismo.it/en/event...
http://www.bml.firenze.sbn.it/it/giov...



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For an article (in Italian) and photographs of the exhibition:
http://www.lanazione.it/firenze/cultu...

If you want to check how "Boccaccio" is pronounced in Italian here's a 2:47 min video (in Italian) on the exhibition:
http://www.florence.tv/it-comuni-cert...

Heliotropia (Boccaccio scholars' articles in pdf format)

Heliotropia is a peer-reviewed journal that was created to provide a widely and readily available forum for research and interpretation to an international community of Boccaccio scholars.

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Ital...

Esther Lamandier - Decameron: Ballate monodiques de l'Ars Nova Florentine

Available on YouTube (45 minutes):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj7nh...




Big: http://ring.cdandlp.com/ubik76/photo_...

{This is the same music that you can download track by track on Pathways through Literature, message #5}

Thank you for all the wonderful links. I've saved the music for further listening later. wonderful.

The Decameron (translated by John Florio, published in 1620 in London) and the Fiammetta are available online from the University of Adelaide:

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/bocca...

DL wrote: "According to the link, he denounced his work after accepting Christianity. That little piece of news changes how I see the stories with the clergy involved. I had assumed that he was a Christian ..."

I don't know anything about that (yet!) but I'm not sure how much to trust that notice because it says he was born in Paris, which is not the commonly-accepted view (it's more the folklore or legend that he himself tried to create I think).

I know that he was the son of a Florentine banker, who worked first in Paris (while his son was in Florence) and was later sent to Naple (with his son) to work for the Bardi Family's bank at the court of Robert King of Naples who was the leader of the Guelphs (ie the Pope) and opposed to the Ghibellines (ie the Holy Roman Emperor who owned "Germany" and Sicily and other bits scattered)... So I'm surprised he wasn't a christian to start with. Then again the way politics and religion seemed to mix at the time is rather complicated. ^.^

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghibelline
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardi_fa...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compagni...

Book Portrait wrote: "

Only in Italian but with nice little photo galleries of the museum."

Lovely. I may be going to Florence and Tuscany next October...!!!!

I had missed all these great links... Wonderful.

Kalliope wrote: "Lovely. I may be going to Florence and Tuscany next October...!!!!"

Ohhhh! Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy. Florence is the one place that I should really like to visit while I am still healthy enough to travel. While October should be lovely in Tuscany, I do believe it is still a very busy time, as I recall from the travel guides perused. My kids like Rome better -- they consider it a more "alive" city, with Florence having a museum like quality. But that is part of what attracts me.

Kalliope, if you don't already have it, there is a wonderful detailed travelogue for Florence that is almost more for the resident than the tourist. I'll try to remember to bring down its name from upstairs. It provides my armchair visit.

Florence in Detail: A Guide for the Expert Traveler by Claudio Gatti. I think this is it -- used Amazon to identify. Goodreads suggests a revised edition is available.

Lily wrote: "Kalliope wrote: "Lovely. I may be going to Florence and Tuscany next October...!!!!"

Ohhhh! Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy. Florence is the one place that I should really like to visit while I am still heal..."

Thank you, Lily.. I did not know this book.. will search for it.

Doing some research on Ambrogio Lorenzetti (his frescoes in Siena), I encountered this..

Linking him to Boccaccio and the Decameron.

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Ital...

Kalliope wrote: "Doing some research on Ambrogio Lorenzetti (his frescoes in Siena), I encountered this..

Linking him to Boccaccio and the Decameron.

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Ital......"

Thanks Kalli, will check it out now.