Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

Birth : , Certaldo, Republic of Florence

Death : 1375-12-21

History

Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Boccaccio wrote a number of notable works, including "The Decameron" and "On Famous Women". He wrote his imaginative literature mostly in Tuscan vernacular, as well as other works in Latin, and is particularly noted for his realistic dialogue which differed from that of his contemporaries, medieval writers who usually followed formulaic models for character and plot.

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Giovanni Boccaccio

Movies

The Little Hours
Novel
Garfagnana, Italy, 1347. The handsome servant Masseto, fleeing from his vindictive master, takes shelter in a nunnery where three young nuns, Sister Alessandra, Sister Ginevra and Sister Fernanda, try unsuccessfully to find out what their purpose in life is, a conundrum that each of them faces in different ways.
Chichibio and the Crane
Original Story
An (un)ordinary day of an (un)ordinary family without hands.
Wondrous Boccaccio
Novel
It's 1348. The plague has brutally hit Florence. A group of then young people, seven women and three men, rebel against the feeling of death that is about to swallow them. They flee the city and find refuge in an abandoned villa in the Tuscan hills. Here, between moral doubts and the tasks needed to survive, they kill time by telling each other stories until they will decide to return. The stories are varied - tragic, bizarre, funny or erotic - but common and central to all of them is the female presence.
A Few Love Stories
Novel
A Few Love Stories based on classic novels by Giovanni Boccaccio, Anton Francesco Grazzini and Agnolo Firenzuola.
Lusty Liaisons II
Story
Series of erotic stories, inspired by La Fontaine's and Boccaccio's work.
Lusty Liaisons
Story
Series of erotic stories, inspired by La Fontaine's and Boccaccio's work.
The Reincarnation of Sex
Story
Patricia (Patricia Scalvi) lives with her parents in the countryside near São Paulo. She's in love with Artur (Artur Roveder) who works for her parents. Both are very happy and full of plans, but Artur is atrociously killed and Patricia fades away in pain. Years later, the house, seemingly empty, is to let, but Artur's voice and Patricia's ghost remain there. All those who rent the house will suffer their influence and become possessed. Through sex and through violence they will be led to the point of no return.
The Nights of Paloma
Story
While being shuttled from her convent/boarding school to her wedding, a young lady of the upper classes is kidnapped by bandits. She gets to see the world and meet interesting people.
Las delicias de los verdes años
Book
In the Middle Age, a farmer named Mauro is heading to Madrid following the last will of his father.
Decameron 4
Novel
A comedy based on fourth novel out of "Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio.
Love, Passion and Pleasure
Novel
Cecco Angiolieri has joined, as storytellers and acrobats, the traveling company of Camillo. The stupidity of this man is so great that Cecco, inventing contagious childhood diseases, replacing it with his wife Dinda until the woman becomes pregnant. Meanwhile, the company has come in a city ruled by poetastro ser Gianni: Cecco, using his poetic vocation, getting license show for his teammates and conquers the woman, Tessa. Another victim of his jokes is fierce mother Lucrezia, new superior of the local monastery: Cecco, after forcing her to strip naked in the brothel of Filippa, precedes the convent pretending to it. Later, he clarified the misunderstanding, it becomes the lover and requires it to give shelter to Dinda, until Camillo is not ready to accept happily the unborn child as his.
The Last Decameron: Adultery in 7 Easy Lessons
Novel
Nights of Boccaccio
Original Story
Boccaccio (also known as The Nights of Boccaccio) is a 1972 Italian comedy film written and directed by Bruno Corbucci. It is loosely based on the Giovanni Boccaccio's novel Decameron, and it is part of a series of derivative comedies based on the success of Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Decameron.
Una cavalla tutta nuda
Author
The youngsters Folcacchio and Guffardo must bring an embassy to the Bishop of Volterra, and during the trip, the two boys meet the beautiful Gemmata. The woman is a poor peasant who is married to Nicholas. Folcacchio and Guffardo, to have a night of love with the girl, pretends to be magicians who can turn humans into beasts.
Hry lásky šálivé
Short Story
The Decameron
Novel
A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover when her husband comes home early; a scoundrel fools a priest on his deathbed; three brothers take revenge on their sister's lover; a young girl sleeps on the roof to meet her boyfriend at night; a group of painters wait for inspiration; a crafty priest attempts to seduce his friend's wife; and two friends make a pact to find out what happens after death.
The Magic Pear Tree
Story
The famous lover Jean Navarro arrives at the castle of a marquis. This is a vulgar bon vivant who has been married to the young Chantelle for a short time. At lunch the Marquis falls asleep and Chantelle goes into the garden with Jean, shows him the roses, the stables and the summer house and shortly afterwards confesses her love to him. Jean asks her to do three things as proof of her affection: the tail feathers of her husband's favorite bird, the marquis's whiskers and one of his teeth.
Archangel Gabriel and Mistress Goose
Short Story
Taken from Boccaccio's Decameron, this lovely puppet film tells the bawdy story of the beautiful young Venetian lady who confesses her sinful passion for the Archangel Gabriel to a lustful monk, who promptly impersonates him in her bedroom with predictable results. Amidst the film's ribaldry, the hypocrisy and false piety of the monk are mercilessly mocked.
Decameron Nights
Novel
Italian poet Boccaccio (Louis Jourdan) hides in the court of Fiammetta (Joan Fontaine) and tells three tales of love and lust.
Swing it, Boccaccio
Story
The theater director Sten Rampe, Svend Blom and Ulrik Blad are on their way to Sten's summer house and suddenly get a flat tire. The fate brings them together with seven young women whose car has fallen out for the same accident.
For Woman's Favor
Story
A modern love story is the framework for a costume love story, based on Boccaccio's "The Falcon."
Decameron Nights
Story
A Saracen sultan's disguised son loves an amnesiac Moslem princess.