• for himself. He tells the others he couldn't find it and they know he is lying. They shut the door on him enclosing him in certain death. He screams out...
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    Arabian Nights, and which inspired the Golden Ass of Apuleius, Boccacio's Decamerone, the Pentamerone, and all that class of facetious fictitious literature...
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  • eifersüchtige Trinker (Libretto: Friedrich Freksa [de] after Boccacio's Decamerone), Musical tragicomedy in 1 act, op. 14. (1925 Nürnberg) Juana. Opera in...
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    pastoral romance. Boccaccio became famous principally for the Italian work, Decamerone, a collection of a hundred novels, related by a party of men and women...
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    in sales, some becoming bestsellers. Titles that sold strongly include Decamerone by Giovanni Boccaccio, written about 1453; A Journal of the Plague Year...
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