Boccaccio, Giovanni
Summary: Located in the Classics rotating display rack.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New York 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOCBoccaccio, Giovanni
Summary: Revised for the seven hundredth anniversary of the author's birth, this tale of medieval Italian life details how ten young Florentines retreat to the countryside to escape the plague-infested city and entertain themselves by telling stories.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BOCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOCSummary: Pasolini's rendition of 8 of Boccaccio's tales. Includes lusty nuns who perform sexual "miracles," a cheating wife with a head for business, a dying con artist attempting a heavenly swindle, young lovers caught with their pants down, a servant who loses his head for love and a gullible farmer who tries to turn his wife into a mare.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DECSummary: "The third in the Very Christmas series, this volume brings together Italian Christmas stories in a collection featuring classic tales and contemporary works. With writing that dates from the Renaissance to the present day, from Boccaccio to Pirandello, as well as Anna Maria Ortese, Natalia Ginzburg and Nobel laureate Grazia Deledda. These literary [works] are filled with ancient churches,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Vessel Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERSummary: A young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns in the Middle Ages. Introduced as a deaf blind man, he must fight to hold his cover as the nuns try to resist temptation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017