Giovani Boccaccio, Decameron: Tweededag

In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages Firenze, 10 young Florentines, the Brigata, take refuge in the countryside, amusing themselves by each, telling a story a day, for ten days, amid the palatial villa’s of Fiesola. A series of stories, of love, adventure, ribald forays and risque situations, with some surprising twists. The tales range from the rise of banking houses, through the politicking of the time, deceivers finding themselves at the feet of the deceived, to pirates winning love, and young ladies finding their eloquent voices. A slightly, more modern version of the hilarious, bawdy, irreverent masterpiece of the 14th Century world, intimately portrayed by Boccaccio and his narrators. Tweededag, illuminates this literary work’s Second day’s tales, with maps, illustrations, etchings, paintings and sculpture’s redolent with the aroma of Liberality. Under Queen Filomena, the tales told, are of men or women, who have been molested by Fortune, yet, contrary to all Hope and expectation are later happily and successfully delivered.