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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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The same year saw a complete Catalan translation of Boccaccio's Decameron carried out by the monks of Sant Cugat.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Boccaccio is the literary source whom Chaucer nowhere names, but borrows from extensively to compose his major works; he is the figure Chaucer reads and rewrites in order to invent his own versions of antiquity and modernity.
This is where the young noblemen and women in Boccaccio's masterpiece ‘Decameron' locked themselves in, to avoid contact with the14th century plague, and told each other stories.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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Both Boccaccio and Chaucer sought to enhance the lyrical quality of their work by embedding in the text quotations from earlier lyric poets.
Boccaccio's work is the first literature written in narrative prose.
Although the work was never totally completed - Lehtonen published in 1914 a selection of Boccaccio's stories - his intensive reading of world classics sharpened his own literary tastes.
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Khalid Binalshibh,
Taxi Driver
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Boccaccio's gloss to the omens notes that the first fire represents Palamon's briefly quenched and then rekindled hopes when Arcite wins the tournament but then dies, and the second fire represents Arcite's death.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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Boccaccio's book briefly went through "lives of notable women from mythology and antiquity" [1] The book can be termed "feminist" in that it "pleads for education for women, she gives s her reason education's close correlation with good conduct.
Two of the most popular uses of the early printing press were pornography, such as Boccaccio's Decameron and numerous less literary works, and vernacular editions of the Bible.
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Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper
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Fall 1999: The SGML encoding of the Italian text of Boccaccio's Decameron allows for detailed searches on specific features of characters, geographic locations and word strings in the narrative.
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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Now Boccaccio's tale aspires to epic heights and since these are ancient Greeks he is able to raise the triangle to sublime dimensions by making Palamon a devotee of Venus, Arcite of Mars, and Emelye, poor helpless virgin, of Diana the chaste, the enemy of marriage.
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Phuong Nguyen,
Exotic Dancer
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Boccaccio’s Decameron includes satirical tales of diabolical beasts and witches’ gatherings that are intended to mock the Inquisitors.
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