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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.
Music and SFX:
http://hebb.mit.edu/FreeMusic/jsbach_bwv996_01
http://hebb.mit.edu/FreeMusic/jsbach_bwv996_02
http://hebb.mit.edu/FreeMusic/jsbach_bwv996_03
http://hebb.mit.edu/FreeMusic/jsbach_bwv996_04
http://hebb.mit.edu/FreeMusic/jsbach_bwv996_05
http://hebb.mit.edu/FreeMusic/jsbach_bwv996_06
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