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Boccaccio: The Decameron (Unabridged)

full cast recording with Simon Russell Beale as Boccaccio

Boccaccio: The Decameron (Unabridged)

Boccaccio: The Decameron (Unabridged)

full cast recording with Simon Russell Beale as Boccaccio

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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 Boccaccios answer to the sublime other-worldliness of Dantes Divine Comedy.

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Giovanni Boccaccio: The Decameron (Unabridged)
Work length28:04:26
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London, UK
The Decameron (Unabridged): The Decameron
Track length8:45
The Decameron (Unabridged): The era of the fruitful Incarnation of the Son…
Track length10:26
The Decameron (Unabridged): It had been the custom…
Track length9:51
The Decameron (Unabridged): There is no offence in putting one's brain…
Track length7:36
The Decameron (Unabridged): Pampinea is absolutely right in what she says…
Track length9:39
The Decameron (Unabridged): Thus dismissed by their new queen…
Track length10:52
The Decameron (Unabridged): Finding himself without employment…
Track length10:22
The Decameron (Unabridged): 'Then tell me, my son…'
Track length12:04
The Decameron (Unabridged): With this he fell silent.
Track length15:42
The Decameron (Unabridged): When Philomena left off speaking…
Track length9:10
The Decameron (Unabridged): The ladies listened with a tinge…
Track length11:17
The Decameron (Unabridged): The queen and all the company…
Track length11:03
The Decameron (Unabridged): Next to Philostrato sat Lauretta.
Track length14:39
The Decameron (Unabridged): The sun was beginning to set…
Track length9:24
The Decameron (Unabridged): How often has it happened that those…
Track length9:44
The Decameron (Unabridged): Neiphile's account of the misfortunes…
Track length15:26
The Decameron (Unabridged): The perils encountered by Rinaldo d'Este…
Track length11:21
The Decameron (Unabridged): Seeing that this could be done without…
Track length10:01
The Decameron (Unabridged): When Pampinea's story reached its triumphant…
Track length11:10
The Decameron (Unabridged): Fiammetta began, for it was now her turn.
Track length5:51
The Decameron (Unabridged): 'Andreuccio, I'm sure that all this affection…'
Track length10:54
The Decameron (Unabridged): This made Andreuccio quite convinced…
Track length11:35
The Decameron (Unabridged): Fiammetta's account of Andreuccio's adventures…
Track length15:02
The Decameron (Unabridged): Hearing of this from one of his gaolers…
Track length16:24
The Decameron (Unabridged): Had Emilia's story gone on any longer…
Track length15:08
The Decameron (Unabridged): The princess bitterly lamented her earlier…
Track length11:37
The Decameron (Unabridged): Getting wind of this…
Track length13:02
The Decameron (Unabridged): Now a gentleman called Antigono…
Track length12:28
The Decameron (Unabridged): The various misadventures that befell…
Track length10:51
The Decameron (Unabridged): This request delighted the count…
Track length12:18
The Decameron (Unabridged): Perotto, meanwhile, had grown up in Wales…
Track length12:46
The Decameron (Unabridged): After Elissa had served her turn…
Track length15:30
The Decameron (Unabridged): Reluctant as he was anyway to kill her…
Track length12:25
The Decameron (Unabridged): The story told by their queen was roundly…
Track length9:07
The Decameron (Unabridged): So they went home to Paganino's…
Track length9:46
The Decameron (Unabridged): This story had them all in such fits of laughter…
Track length13:43
The Decameron (Unabridged): There are scores of men, and women too…
Track length15:17
The Decameron (Unabridged): Philostrato's story made the ladies laugh…
Track length12:18
The Decameron (Unabridged): When Pampinea finished speaking…
Track length10:49
The Decameron (Unabridged): This said, she drew out from beneath her long…
Track length9:47
The Decameron (Unabridged): When Philomena fell silent on finishing her tale…
Track length11:48
The Decameron (Unabridged): Pamphilo concluded his tale of Brother Puccio…
Track length11:46
The Decameron (Unabridged): Elissa had nothing left to say…
Track length9:04
The Decameron (Unabridged): Having given Ricciardo's words more credence…
Track length9:49
The Decameron (Unabridged): Fiammetta fell silent amid a chorus of praise…
Track length12:49
The Decameron (Unabridged): 'Now I'll have you know that I am a friar…'
Track length12:50
The Decameron (Unabridged): He put on his hat and pilgrim's smock again…
Track length12:53
The Decameron (Unabridged): Emilia's story reached its conclusion.
Track length13:31
The Decameron (Unabridged): When he had finished eating…
Track length6:51
The Decameron (Unabridged): If she was not to infringe Dioneo's privilege…
Track length10:03
The Decameron (Unabridged): She bade them goodbye…
Track length10:11
The Decameron (Unabridged): Dioneo had closely followed the queen's narrative.
Track length12:15
The Decameron (Unabridged): Time and again the good ladies…
Track length15:32
The Decameron (Unabridged): But that's as far as I want to take this story…
Track length17:51
The Decameron (Unabridged): As she listened to her father…
Track length14:34
The Decameron (Unabridged): Fiammetta's story had several times…
Track length13:33
The Decameron (Unabridged): After lunch Lisetta, with a companion…
Track length9:56
The Decameron (Unabridged): Hearing the end of Pampinea's story…
Track length13:37
The Decameron (Unabridged): Lauretta concluded her story and fell silent…
Track length10:59
The Decameron (Unabridged): Elissa finished her tale.
Track length8:40
The Decameron (Unabridged): The ladies found Philomena's tale enormously…
Track length15:48
The Decameron (Unabridged): When Pamphilo had delivered himself of his story…
Track length9:01
The Decameron (Unabridged): Emilia's story reached its conclusion…
Track length12:16
The Decameron (Unabridged): So ended Neiphile's story…
Track length7:39
The Decameron (Unabridged): As the king had completed his tale…
Track length14:25
The Decameron (Unabridged): Shortly afterwards the maid…
Track length14:14
The Decameron (Unabridged): Here ends the fourth day of the Decameron…
Track length13:49
The Decameron (Unabridged): So Cimone returned to his shipmates…
Track length13:35
The Decameron (Unabridged): The queen spoke highly of Pamphilo's story…
Track length14:12
The Decameron (Unabridged): Emilia's story was unanimously approved.
Track length14:32
The Decameron (Unabridged): Elissa finished her tale and listened…
Track length12:48
The Decameron (Unabridged): The story of the nightingale had sent…
Track length12:11
The Decameron (Unabridged): The ladies had so much enjoyed Neiphile's story…
Track length13:46
The Decameron (Unabridged): The ladies were all on tenterhooks…
Track length14:49
The Decameron (Unabridged): As Lauretta finished, Philomena, at the queen's…
Track length12:47
The Decameron (Unabridged): When Philomena finished speaking…
Track length14:35
The Decameron (Unabridged): The queen concluded her tale…
Track length8:27
The Decameron (Unabridged): The young wife, therefore, reached an…
Track length12:33
The Decameron (Unabridged): Amused though they were by Dioneo's tale…
Track length9:01
The Decameron (Unabridged): While Licisca was talking the women…
Track length12:40
The Decameron (Unabridged): When Pampinea finished her tale…
Track length12:47
The Decameron (Unabridged): The ladies were still chuckling over Giotto's…
Track length11:04
The Decameron (Unabridged): Philostrato's story made the ladies…
Track length7:23
The Decameron (Unabridged): Each one of the party had told a story…
Track length10:46
The Decameron (Unabridged): Those simple folk, men and women…
Track length12:38
The Decameron (Unabridged): Now certain of the ladies felt that this topic…
Track length14:35
The Decameron (Unabridged): Had it been your pleasure, my lord…
Track length10:00
The Decameron (Unabridged): Emilia's tale was greeted with boisterous…
Track length8:57
The Decameron (Unabridged): Philostrato could not disguise his allusion…
Track length10:37
The Decameron (Unabridged): When he heard the end of Elissa's story…
Track length7:45
The Decameron (Unabridged): Lauretta ended her tale…
Track length13:17
The Decameron (Unabridged): Well, what am I to say?
Track length12:09
The Decameron (Unabridged): The entire company agreed that Isabella's…
Track length12:33
The Decameron (Unabridged): It was generally agreed that Beatrice…
Track length8:07
The Decameron (Unabridged): Arriguccio left his house and went as fast…
Track length9:18
The Decameron (Unabridged): The ladies had so much enjoyed Neiphile's story…
Track length11:29
The Decameron (Unabridged): Now a few days after killing the hawk…
Track length10:58
The Decameron (Unabridged): Only the king was left to tell a tale…
Track length9:02
The Decameron (Unabridged): Zephyr, the West Wind, got up as the afternoon…
Track length13:32
The Decameron (Unabridged): Everyone, lads and lasses alike…
Track length12:11
The Decameron (Unabridged): The ladies laughed so much at Pamphilo's tale…
Track length16:35
The Decameron (Unabridged): When Elissa reached the end of her story…
Track length11:24
The Decameron (Unabridged): Emilia came to the end of her story…
Track length6:44
The Decameron (Unabridged): No sooner was Philostrato's tale finished…
Track length12:11
The Decameron (Unabridged): Poor Calandrino, how the ladies laughed at him!
Track length13:52
The Decameron (Unabridged): After a long, long time the night gave place…
Track length13:50
The Decameron (Unabridged): After sunrise, Elena approached the wall…
Track length13:59
The Decameron (Unabridged): Seeing that his drift tended entirely towards…
Track length15:39
The Decameron (Unabridged): The ladies found it painful to listen…
Track length9:56
The Decameron (Unabridged): The pooling of wives, as practised by the two…
Track length15:07
The Decameron (Unabridged): 'Speak freely: I see you still don’t know me all…'
Track length16:05
The Decameron (Unabridged): There is no need to ask how much laughter…
Track length16:10
The Decameron (Unabridged): Once Jancofiore was in possession of the money…
Track length12:32
The Decameron (Unabridged): When Dioneo concluded his tale…
Track length8:34
The Decameron (Unabridged): How pleased I am, my lady…
Track length12:03
The Decameron (Unabridged): Philomena fell silent.
Track length15:42
The Decameron (Unabridged): The things Calandrino said about his wife…
Track length9:50
The Decameron (Unabridged): Neiphile finished her tale…
Track length11:03
The Decameron (Unabridged): Calandrino spent the entire evening…
Track length6:41
The Decameron (Unabridged): The party had derived amusement…
Track length10:32
The Decameron (Unabridged): When Pamphilo's story was ended…
Track length11:59
The Decameron (Unabridged): It remained only for the queen to tell a story…
Track length11:22
The Decameron (Unabridged): The tale of the queen's had the ladies…
Track length8:40
The Decameron (Unabridged): Dioneo wished that the ladies in his audience…
Track length13:55
The Decameron (Unabridged): Everyone applauded the generosity…
Track length10:30
The Decameron (Unabridged): Great, indeed, was the liberality of the King…
Track length16:02
The Decameron (Unabridged): To be generous with one's own blood…
Track length14:28
The Decameron (Unabridged): The entire merry throng, one and all…
Track length10:49
The Decameron (Unabridged): Who could give a full account of the debate…
Track length14:48
The Decameron (Unabridged): Fiammetta came to the end of her story…
Track length7:42
The Decameron (Unabridged): These words Minuccio soon set to the soft…
Track length9:39
The Decameron (Unabridged): When Pampinea finished…
Track length14:13
The Decameron (Unabridged): Though Titus was embarrassed to accept…
Track length11:14
The Decameron (Unabridged): 'And so, looking at the matter reasonably…'
Track length16:29
The Decameron (Unabridged): At the conclusion of Philomena's narrative…
Track length11:37
The Decameron (Unabridged): The gentlemen were astounded…
Track length9:24
The Decameron (Unabridged): Torello was over the moon when he heard this…
Track length10:36
The Decameron (Unabridged): In accordance with his request…
Track length9:32
The Decameron (Unabridged): It seems to me, my gentle ladies…
Track length15:58
The Decameron (Unabridged): It took her a supreme effort…
Track length12:02
The Decameron (Unabridged): Dioneo's story was ended…
Track length5:55
The Decameron (Unabridged): They sang many more songs after that…
Track length13:05
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