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1. Giovanni Boccaccio's Introduction to 'The Decameron'

Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories

Chapters
3:30
Boccaccio begins his prologue describing the plague in Florence
8:40
Bad medicine
13:10
Different ways of dying
25:50
The corpses pile up
32:19
Introducing the ten story-tellers
34:00
Pampinea convinces the other young women to flee Florence
50:00
A country retreat
59:04
Pampinea recommends that they tell stories to pass the time
Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories
1. Giovanni Boccaccio's Introduction to 'The Decameron'
Jul 20, 2020 Season 1 Episode 1

Bob Jones (MFA, Mary Baldwin) recites the introduction to Giovanni Boccaccio's influential, often cited, (and rarely read) The Decameron.

Podcast intro: Karen Alvarado. Editing and Sound Design by Brady Marchand. Copy editing by Bob Jones, Ania Upstill, Karen Alvarado, and J.M. Meyer. Project manager: Celine Dirkes. Graphic design: Hannah Lang.

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