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Terry Jones introduces ten delicious Renaissance tales, adapted from the Decameron by Robin Brooks.
Terry Jones introduces the first of ten tasty Renaissance tales.

The 100 stories which make up Giovanni Boccaccio’s humane and comic masterpiece come from all over the world.

This Renaissance work is considered a landmark in the history of literature.

The stories are vividly reset by Boccaccio among the flourishing merchant classes in the cities of 14th-century Italy.

But their witty, satirical, bawdy voice sounds utterly modern, and their subjects - love, fate, sex, religion, morality - are universal.

"Luckily, God listens to the sincerity of our prayers, and takes no account of their ignorance…"

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