Decameron
A BBC Radio Drama Adaptation of the Renaissance Classic
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Terry Jones introduces ten dramatisations of choice Florentine Fancies, adapted from Giovanni Boccaccio's classic human comedy by the BBC
Monty Python star and medieval historian Terry Jones presents ten BBC Radio dramatisations of tales from Giovanni Boccaccio's humane and comic masterpiece.
Composed in the early 1350s, in the wake of the Black Death, The Decameron comprises 100 short stories from all over the world, reset by Boccaccio among the flourishing merchant classes of Renaissance Italy. Their universal themes - love, sex, religion, fate, morality - resonate with us to this day, and their witty, satirical, bawdy voice sounds utterly modern. Beautifully realised in vivid, vernacular prose, they have become a bedrock of our storytelling tradition, mined ever since by authors from Chaucer to Shakespeare, Keats, Molière and Thomas Mann.
The scene is the onset of the Black Death, Italy and a group of seven young women and three young men escape to the countryside to shelter in a secluded villa just outside of Florence in order to escape the Plague. There, they tell each other tales from all over the world.
These ten radio retellings are performed by a stellar cast, including John Finnemore, Ingrid Oliver, Geoffrey Streatfeild, Lydia Leonard, Tim McInnerny, Samuel Barnett, Neil Pearson, Louise Brealey, and Tameka Empson.
Cast and credits
Saint Ciappelletto
Ciappelletto - Colin McFarlane
Musciatto - Sam Dale
Holy Friar - Michael Bertenshaw
The Burgundians - Monty d'Inverno & Paul Heath
Doctor - Ian Conningham
Federigo and His Falcon
Federigo degli Alberighi - John Finnemore
Monna - Ingrid Oliver
Elena - Carrie Quinlan
Beppo - Shaun Mason
Niccolo - Adam Thomas Wright
How Elena Blew Hot and Cold
Elena - Lydia Leonard
Violante - Elaine Claxton
Rinieri - Cyril Nri
Pyrrhus - Paul Heath
How to Get It Off Your Chest
Zeppa - Ian Conningham
Mrs Zeppa - Hannah Genesius
Spinelloccio - Shaun Mason
Mrs Spinelloccio - Bettrys Jones
Narrator - Jude Akuwudike
Kind Hearts and Bayonets
Mithridanes - Samuel Barnett
Nathan - Sam Dale
Beggarmaid - Bettrys Jones
The Sweetest Young Man in Perugia
Pietro - Tim McInnerny
Madam - Hannah Genesius
Pandara - Jane Slavin
Masetto - Monty d'Inverno
Ercolano - David Acton
The Wager
Musciatto - Michael Bertenshaw
Ambrogiuolo - Geoffrey Streatfeild
Bernabo - Paul Ritter
Zinevra - Louise Brealey
Sultan - Jude Akuwudike
Captain - Shaun Mason
A Job for the Boys
Masetto - Neil Pearson
Sister Donna - Tameka Empson
Sister Lisa - Rhiannon Neads
Hildegard - Jane Slavin
Nuto - Sam Dale
Steward - Michael Bertenshaw
Love Lies Sleeping
Silvestra - Laura Molyneux
Beppo - Rudi Dharmalingam
Giovanni - Joseph Drake
Mother - Jane Slavin
Rinaldo - David Acton
A Quiet Night in Naples
Andreuccio - Gunnar Cauthery
Filomena - Roslyn Hill
Scarabone - Shaun Mason
Neighbour - David Acton
Ludo - Paul Heath
Bruno - Ian Conningham
Sister Lisa - Elaine Claxton
Sister Donna - Hannah Genesius
First broadcast BBC Radio 3, 1-12 December 2014
Written by Giovanni Boccaccio
Adapted by Robin Brooks
Music arranged and performed by Robert Hollingworth and Paula Chateauneuf
Translations by Silvia Reseghetti
Script consultant: Guyda Armstrong
Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting
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A bad best man’s speech can ruin a wedding. Why do we plan every detail of a perfect day and then give the groom’s idiot best friend five minutes of total power? Enter Nate (Glen Powell), a speechwriter-for-hire who helps people write incredible best man speeches. To keep the best man from embarrassing himself (and the newlyweds), Nate uses his list of don’ts: Don’t mention the exes, don’t be rated R, and don’t bum everyone out. Nate’s system never fails. That is, until he meets Dan (Nicholas Braun).
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5 out of 5 stars
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SO GOOD
- De Csutty en 09-23-24
De: Matthew Starr
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American Psycho
- De: Bret Easton Ellis
- Narrado por: Pablo Schreiber
- Duración: 16 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 5,326
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,717
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4,725
Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fanntastic book but maybe not for everyone....
- De So Fain en 03-27-11
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The Answer Is No
- A Short Story
- De: Fredrik Backman, Elizabeth DeNoma - translator
- Narrado por: Stacy Gonzalez
- Duración: 1 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,044
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 982
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 982
Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator doesn’t get Backman’s satire or rhythm
- De joey1603 en 12-01-24
De: Fredrik Backman, y otros
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Born a Crime
- Stories from a South African Childhood
- De: Trevor Noah
- Narrado por: Trevor Noah
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 215,948
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 195,365
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 194,397
In this award-winning Audible Studios production, Trevor Noah tells his wild coming-of-age tale during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa. It’s a story that begins with his mother throwing him from a moving van to save him from a potentially fatal dispute with gangsters, then follows the budding comedian’s path to self-discovery through episodes both poignant and comical.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book and perfect narration
- De MarilynArms en 12-15-16
De: Trevor Noah
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Slaughterhouse-Five
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: James Franco
- Duración: 5 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19,191
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 17,150
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 17,125
Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).
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4 out of 5 stars
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Don't Quit Your Daytime Job, James
- De Keith en 11-20-15
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Stranded
- De: Chris Bruno, David Howard Lee, Shukri R. Abdi
- Narrado por: Taraji P. Henson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Blake Griffin, y otros
- Duración: 2 h y 7 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,882
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,834
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,834
Separated by 10 years, 3,000 miles, and the unrelenting stresses of adulthood, best friends Janet and Serena plan a 40th birthday girls’ trip to reconnect. But after a massive crash, they’re the only survivors to wash ashore on an uncharted Caribbean Island. Armed with only the clothes on their backs and zero survival skills, they fight to overcome hunger, thirst, deadly wildlife—and most terrifyingly—decades of accrued resentment. Can they find their way home, or will they kill each other first?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Get ready to Laugh
- De Lasheree McFarlane en 11-08-24
De: Chris Bruno, y otros
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The Best Man's Ghostwriter
- De: Matthew Starr
- Narrado por: Glen Powell, Nicholas Braun, Ashley Park, y otros
- Duración: 4 h y 37 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,982
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,925
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,925
A bad best man’s speech can ruin a wedding. Why do we plan every detail of a perfect day and then give the groom’s idiot best friend five minutes of total power? Enter Nate (Glen Powell), a speechwriter-for-hire who helps people write incredible best man speeches. To keep the best man from embarrassing himself (and the newlyweds), Nate uses his list of don’ts: Don’t mention the exes, don’t be rated R, and don’t bum everyone out. Nate’s system never fails. That is, until he meets Dan (Nicholas Braun).
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5 out of 5 stars
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SO GOOD
- De Csutty en 09-23-24
De: Matthew Starr
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American Psycho
- De: Bret Easton Ellis
- Narrado por: Pablo Schreiber
- Duración: 16 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 5,326
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,717
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4,725
Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fanntastic book but maybe not for everyone....
- De So Fain en 03-27-11
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The Decameron
- De: Giovanni Boccaccio
- Narrado por: Simon Russell Beale, Gunnar Cauthery, Alison Pettitt, y otros
- Duración: 28 h y 5 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 263
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 232
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 233
The Decameron is one of the greatest literary works of the Middle Ages. Ten young people have fled the terrible effects of the Black Death in Florence and, in an idyllic setting, tell a series of brilliant stories, by turns humorous, bawdy, tragic and provocative. This celebration of physical and sexual vitality is Boccaccio's answer to the sublime other-worldliness of Dante's Divine Comedy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not Up to the Usual Naxos Standard
- De John en 11-15-17
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The Decameron
- De: Giovanni Boccaccio
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 29 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 61
Giovanni Boccaccio, Dante, and Petrarch were the leading lights in a century that is considered the beginning of the Italian Renaissance. The Decameron, or Ten Days' Entertainment, is his most famous work, a collection of stories considered representative of the Middle Ages, as well as a product of the Renaissance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everyone is dying: Let's bawdy!
- De Darwin8u en 08-13-14
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Decameron
- De: Giovanni Boccaccio
- Narrado por: Serafino Balduzzi
- Duración: 36 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
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Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
Firenze, 1348. La peste nera infuria, e un gruppo di giovani sta cercando di fuggire da essa. Alla ricerca di un rifugio sicuro, si ritrovano in campagna. Nell'arco di dieci giorni, per passare il tempo, si raccontano un centinaio di storie fantastiche, tristi ed elaborate. Un ricco arazzo di tragedia e commedia, di farsa e di erotismo, "Il Decameron" è un capolavoro della prosa italiana. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) è stato uno studioso, uno scrittore e un poeta italiano.
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Selections from The Decameron
- De: Giovanni Boccaccio
- Narrado por: Teresa Gallagher, James Goode, Polly Hayes, y otros
- Duración: 4 h y 41 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 16
Here are 16 tales from one of the great works of the Middle Ages. Ten young people have fled for a while the terrible effects of the Black Death in Florence and, in an idyllic setting, tell a series of brilliant stories, by turns humorous, bawdy, tragic and provocative. This celebration of physical and sexual vitality is Boccaccio’s answer to the sublime other-worldliness of Dante’s Divine Comedy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun, fun, fun
- De Amazon Customer en 08-15-18
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Decameron
- De: Giovanni Boccaccio
- Narrado por: Moro Silo
- Duración: 1 h y 19 m
- Versión resumida
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
Giovanni Boccaccio può essere considerato insieme con Dante e Petrarca, il più importante scrittore del XIV secolo sia in Italia che in tutta Europa...
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The Decameron
- De: Giovanni Boccaccio
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 2 h y 25 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 22
A group of Florentine youths escape to the mountain countryside during the time of the plague, only to regale each other with vignettes of sex, vice, temptation, and come-uppance. This is a strictly adult listen, which will bring a little colour to your cheeks and have you laughing out loud.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Medieval porn, pretty tame today
- De No Suspicion en 09-29-18
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The Decameron
- De: Giovanni Boccaccio
- Narrado por: Simon Russell Beale, Gunnar Cauthery, Alison Pettitt, y otros
- Duración: 28 h y 5 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 263
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 232
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 233
The Decameron is one of the greatest literary works of the Middle Ages. Ten young people have fled the terrible effects of the Black Death in Florence and, in an idyllic setting, tell a series of brilliant stories, by turns humorous, bawdy, tragic and provocative. This celebration of physical and sexual vitality is Boccaccio's answer to the sublime other-worldliness of Dante's Divine Comedy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not Up to the Usual Naxos Standard
- De John en 11-15-17
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The Decameron
- De: Giovanni Boccaccio
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 29 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 61
Giovanni Boccaccio, Dante, and Petrarch were the leading lights in a century that is considered the beginning of the Italian Renaissance. The Decameron, or Ten Days' Entertainment, is his most famous work, a collection of stories considered representative of the Middle Ages, as well as a product of the Renaissance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everyone is dying: Let's bawdy!
- De Darwin8u en 08-13-14
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Decameron
- De: Giovanni Boccaccio
- Narrado por: Serafino Balduzzi
- Duración: 36 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
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Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
Firenze, 1348. La peste nera infuria, e un gruppo di giovani sta cercando di fuggire da essa. Alla ricerca di un rifugio sicuro, si ritrovano in campagna. Nell'arco di dieci giorni, per passare il tempo, si raccontano un centinaio di storie fantastiche, tristi ed elaborate. Un ricco arazzo di tragedia e commedia, di farsa e di erotismo, "Il Decameron" è un capolavoro della prosa italiana. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) è stato uno studioso, uno scrittore e un poeta italiano.
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Selections from The Decameron
- De: Giovanni Boccaccio
- Narrado por: Teresa Gallagher, James Goode, Polly Hayes, y otros
- Duración: 4 h y 41 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 16
Here are 16 tales from one of the great works of the Middle Ages. Ten young people have fled for a while the terrible effects of the Black Death in Florence and, in an idyllic setting, tell a series of brilliant stories, by turns humorous, bawdy, tragic and provocative. This celebration of physical and sexual vitality is Boccaccio’s answer to the sublime other-worldliness of Dante’s Divine Comedy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun, fun, fun
- De Amazon Customer en 08-15-18
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Decameron
- De: Giovanni Boccaccio
- Narrado por: Moro Silo
- Duración: 1 h y 19 m
- Versión resumida
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
Giovanni Boccaccio può essere considerato insieme con Dante e Petrarca, il più importante scrittore del XIV secolo sia in Italia che in tutta Europa...
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The Decameron
- De: Giovanni Boccaccio
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 2 h y 25 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 22
A group of Florentine youths escape to the mountain countryside during the time of the plague, only to regale each other with vignettes of sex, vice, temptation, and come-uppance. This is a strictly adult listen, which will bring a little colour to your cheeks and have you laughing out loud.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Medieval porn, pretty tame today
- De No Suspicion en 09-29-18
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The Canterbury Tales
- Penguin Classics
- De: Geoffrey Chaucer, Nevill Coghill (Translation)
- Narrado por: Lesley Manville, Daniel Weyman, Derek Jacobi, y otros
- Duración: 16 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 18
In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight's account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Magnificent
- De Amazon Customer en 03-07-25
De: Geoffrey Chaucer, y otros
![La peste [The Plague] Audiolibro Por Albert Camus arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/514LTYiakoL._SL320_.jpg)
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La peste [The Plague]
- De: Albert Camus
- Narrado por: Carlos Di Blasi
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 176
Ambientada a fines de los años cuarenta del siglo XX en Orán, La peste narra las vicisitudes de una ciudad cerrada durante un inesperado brote de peste bubónica. Ya en fechas de su publicación original, el autor confirmó lo que muchos lectores veían por sí solos: la epidemia era una alegoría de la ocupación nazi en Francia. Sin embargo, ese paralelismo no agota la capacidad profética del relato, que advierte sobre los peligros invisibles que acechan a toda sociedad moderna.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excelente, atemporal e imperdible!!
- De Alvaro Orozco en 05-19-20
De: Albert Camus
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Le Morte D'Arthur
- De: Sir Thomas Malory
- Narrado por: Chris MacDonnell
- Duración: 37 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 239
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 209
To the modern eye, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table have many similarities to our own contemporary super-heroes. Equipped with magical powers, enchanted swords, super-strength, and countless villains to take on, they protect the weak and innocent and adhere to their own code of honor. Comparing Batman, Superman, and Captain America to Sir Launcelot, Sir Tristram, and Sir Galahad isn't a huge leap of the imagination.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is my go-to audio version of Malory
- De Arthurian Tapestry en 03-16-19
![Decameron [Russian Edition] Audiolibro Por Jiovanni Baccaccio arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51WvZTh2TYL._SL320_.jpg)
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Decameron [Russian Edition]
- De: Jiovanni Baccaccio
- Narrado por: Suren Kocharyan
- Duración: 1 h y 45 m
- Versión resumida
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General2.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:2 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 1
Radiokompozicija po motivam sobranija novell "Dekameron" ital'janskogo pisatelja Dzhovanni Bokkachcho, odnoj iz samyh znamenityh knig rannego ital'janskogo Renessansa, napisannoj priblizitel'no v 1352-1354 gody. Bol'shinstvo novell jetoj knigi posvjashheno teme ljubvi, nachinaja ot ejo jeroticheskogo i zakanchivaja tragicheskim aspektami. Struktura sochinenija dvojaka - ispol'zuetsja »ramochnaja kompozicija« so vstavnymi novellami.
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Decameron
- Novelle scelte
- De: Giovanni Boccaccio
- Narrado por: Alessandro Benvenuti
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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Firenze, 1348: una brigata di giovani, sette donne e tre uomini, si rifugia nella campagna circostante in fuga dalla peste nera. Per medicare l'angoscia e rifondare i valori umani sconvolti dal flagello, i dieci giovani raccontano a turno novelle die più vari argomenti, tessere di uno straordinario quadro della civiltà trecentesca.
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Finnegans Wake
- De: James Joyce
- Narrado por: Barry McGovern, Marcella Riordan
- Duración: 29 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 89
Finnegans Wake is the greatest challenge in 20th-century literature. Who is Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker? And what did he get up to in Phoenix Park? And what did Anna Livia Plurabelle have to say about it? In the rich nighttime and the language of dreams, here are history, anecdote, myth, folk tale and, above all, a wondrous sense of humor, colored by a clear sense of humanity. In this exceptional reading by the Irish actor Barry McGovern, with Marcella Riordan, the world of the Wake is more accessible than ever before.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The keys to. Given!
- De hyand en 06-16-21
De: James Joyce