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Decameron 2.0: Web-based world by the Decameron Collective

open access: gold
<p>Decameron 2.0 is a 3D virtual environment designed for web browsers using the Unity game engine, which is the product of the work of the Decameron Collective, a group of nine research creators from Canada. The project takes cues from Giovanni Boccaccio's plague narrative The Decameron (1348-1353) - a medieval frame narrative about a group of ...
Izabella Pruska Oldenhof   +8 more
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THE SUBMISSIVENESS MOTIF OF А WOMAN: THE GRISELDA TALE BY GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

open access: yesFilolog, 2021
This paper presents the analysis of Griselda, the main female character of the last novella of Decameron. Tis novella has had different classical and feminist interpretations due to its central position and the violence caused to Griselda by her husband,
Сања Н. Кобиљ Ћуић
doaj   +3 more sources

Pandemics: past, present, future: That is like choosing between cholera and plague. [PDF]

open access: yesAPMIS, 2021
The major epidemic and pandemic diseases that have bothered humans since the Neolithic Age and Bronze Age are surveyed. Many of these pandemics are zoonotic infections, and the mathematical modeling of such infections is illustrated. Plague, cholera, syphilis, influenza, SARS, MERS, COVID‐19, and new potential epidemic and pandemic infections and their
Høiby N.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Boccaccio’s Decameron in Greek

open access: yesChronotopos, 2023
The article offers a brief historical overview of Boccaccio’s Decameron in Greek since the 16th century, focusing on the notion of Translation Agency. Intending to highlight the importance of this notion, I shall refer to key concepts, mainly Bourdieu’s
Stelios
doaj   +1 more source

Nikos Kazantzakis’ Unshot Adaptations of Don Quixote and Decameron

open access: yesClassica Cracoviensia, 2021
This article examines two of Nikos Kazantzakis’ unshot screenplays of the early 1930s: his adaptations of Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Boccaccio’s Decameron, kept in typed manuscripts at the Nikos Kazantzakis Museum Foundation in Iraklion, Crete.
Panayiota Mini
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‘I was Born in One City, but Raised in Another’: Aretino's Perugian Apprenticeship

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 166-191, April 2023., 2023
Abstract According to his apocrypha, Aretino was forced to flee his hometown of Arezzo after penning some anti‐papal verses. Similarly, it is claimed that he fled Perugia ten years later after painting a lute into the hands of a depiction of the Maddalena, which stood in one of the town's piazze.
William T. Rossiter
wiley   +1 more source

Everyday attentiveness: understanding diabetes in Vietnam through literary displacement

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 595-612, June 2022., 2022
Abstract World‐wide, diabetes is taking on epidemic proportions. This is a debilitating disease that damages and destroys bodily systems unless blood sugar levels are kept close to normal, and patients are therefore urged to practise attentive self‐management.
Tine M. Gammeltoft
wiley   +1 more source

Reminiscenze decameroniane in “Quelle signore” di Umberto Notari [PDF]

open access: yesParole Rubate, 2022
This essay focuses on references to Boccaccio in Umberto Notari’s novel, “Quelle signore” (1904). Notari’s text achieved phenomenal and long-term success (eighty thousand copies in a few months and three hundred copies in 1920), owing to the scabrous ...
Milena Contini
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