#Il Decameron

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Teorema (1968) // dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini Il Decameron (1971) // dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini I racconti di Canterbury (1972) // dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Il Decameron

Pier Paolo Pasolini 1971

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Il Decameron, Pier Paolo Pasolini

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The Decameron (1971) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Why create a work of art when dreaming about it is so much sweeter?

Il Decameron (1971), Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Il Decameron 1971

Pier Paolo Pasolini

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01. The Search for the Lost Husband and The Persecuted Lady

Those are considered the two most widespread kind of folktales. What personally touches me the most about these stories is how they explore the resilience of its female heroines, wich we often underestimake as weakness in real life women.

The Search for the Lost Husband touches on the anxiety about arranged marriages, and how women feared they would be sold by their fathers to wild, monstrous beasts, specially because their husbands are full of secrets. Them the heroines break a taboo, discovering the secret, wich makes the husband depart full of fears and insecurity, while the heroine, having grown in love for the husband, reveals courage and confidence to go in a long, dangerous journey to, now in her own terms, win back her beloved. Rather than end the narrative with the marriage celebrations, this kind of story explores what it takes to keep the marriage.

The Persecuted Lady touches in the domestic drama of women who suffer familial abuse, be it the work force exploitation imposed by a stepmother, the appearance shaming imposed by a birth mother, the sexist neglect of a father or grandfather, or the sexual harassment committed by a father. In some tales, the heroines suffer in silence at their own homes, in others, usually under a disguise that makes her look ugly by societal standards (like a straw coat or an animal’s skin), she runs away and works in servitude in another place, also suffering abuse from the employers, until she has the chance to enjoy at least three festive occasions and catch the eyes of a handsome and young rich suitor (usually a Prince), who uses a piece of garment like a shoe or ring to identify the heroine and marry her. The heroine has a long time to cope with harsh situations, but keeps hopefull for better days, and finds the love and happiness that she didn’t had back at home.

My favorite Search for the Lost Husband tales are The Black Bull of Norroway, The Singing Springing Lark and The Iron Stove. My favorite Persecuted Lady tales are Dona Labismínia, Bicho de Palha, Maria Borralheira, Donkeyskin, Thousand Furs, Princess in a Leather Burqa, Florinda, The Three Sisters, The Tale of Popelka, Tattercoats and Cap’O Rushes.

02. The Story Inside the Story

This is when one character presents a fictional narrative to another character, and the narrative presented is just as engaging as the in universe “real” characters we have been accompanying. Sometimes the characters are just amusing themselves with a fun story, and other times the story has a thematic moral relevance to the “real life” situation they are living. The Story Inside the Story can take the form of A Book Within the Book, A Play Within the Play, A Movie Within the Movie, and so forward. The most famous example, and still my favorite, of Story Inside the Story is probably the One Thousand and One Nights book. Other famous examples include Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Giovanni Boccacio’s Decameron.

03. The Family Saga

When the story stars being about a character, them this character dies and we move on to see the story of that character’s children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, all the while we see their different points of view about the political, cultural and societal changes troughout history. My favorite Family Sagas are the myth of The Mahabharata, the myth of King Arthur, Shakespeare’s Henriad and Rose Tetralogy cycle of plays, Érico Veríssimo’s novel Time and the Wind and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.

04. The Band of Heroes in a Quest

A group of people who in normal circumstance unlikely would meet and talk to each other is united by fantastical circunstances to go on a quest. The object of the quest varies: it could be a treasure, a search for spiritual enlightment, save an innocent in distress, destroy a cursed artifact or eliminate an ancient evil and save the world they know from doom.

My favorite examples Band of Heroes in a Quest are probably the Vampire Hunters from Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel, the Fellowship of the Ring from Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings novel and the Bronze Saints from Toei’s Saint Seiya anime.

05. Deal with the Devil

A human being who makes a deal, out of either desperation or pure ambition, promising his soul to the Devil. Sometimes the deal is selling the soul right away, other times the deal is a bet, where if the human fails at accomplishing a task, the Devil will take their soul  to suffer eternally in Hell. We accompany the main character’s journey as he asks: should I use what the Devil gaved me for my own benefit, or should I use it to help other people in need? If I use it to help people in need, so I am redeemed, or my deal with the Devil will forever tarnish me as an evil person? Was I wise in making this deal? Is the Devil truly evil, or is he just testing the evil I may have inside me?

There are two ways in wich this story ends: either the main character escapes with his soul redeemed (usually by a loophole in the contract) or he has sank so low in doing evil deeds that the Devil wins and takes his soul to Hell. The most famous example of a Deal with the Devil kind of story is the german myth of Doctor Faust.

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Al confronto Chichibio cuoco era un dilettante!

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EPILOGUE

Here we revisit “the book called Decameron, also entitled Princes Galeotto, containing one hundred tales, told in ten days by seven ladies and three young men” (Boccaccio, v).

MY dearest audience, for six hundred sixty-nine years these completed tales have grown more and more accessible to you. From oral tradition to leather-bound books to lighted tablets, these stories have indeed awaited each one of you so that you may yet free yourself from the restraints that bind you – fetters of the home, shackles of the mind, and the chains around your eleutheromaniacal hearts. Thus far, the advice and warnings laced throughout are disregarded by many who question the most virtuous intent by which I address you.

In the court of law called life, my lawsuit has not convinced internally all the Popular Judges; still, there are those of you who truly hear the plea I offer. For as long as you believe my truth then those who are naïve and those who choose to remain ignorant have no power to faithfully assert ethics onto the human tales that I have put together for you. In this, we make an exchange and that is the core of all interactions. I implore all of you, as the context for the Decameron remains so droll-fully concurrent to your existence, to consider once more and accept our slavery to the Nature of humanity – of others and your self – for it is only then that you may understand the freedom of the indefinite place you hold in all of this.

​Your true self is your sole concern. It is begged of you to please yourself before pleasing others as you cannot satisfy anyone else until you first gratify yourself. Forgo the seriousness of life and in particular towards yourself. Detach your self from places, people, and things often – here you will you find your power. You are surrounded by the intangible spirit of Nature; when you can appreciate its energies, you will find the material possessions of your lives are products of the neglected spiritual void to where you lost your selves. In our state of Nature, we are naked. We must remove the many clothes we wear to cover our humanity. The nobility that comes from the person you are, the values you have, and the way in which you express your self is released when you refuse to quantify it. The point of every one of you is to know your self and seize fulfillment in your present. Yet still, you cannot lose sight of other’s realities around you or they will manipulate and scrounge upon your sensibilities.

They will tell you that our world is rife with plague, famine, and Death. The violence of this sphere we find ourselves on is indisputable. Behind the closed doors, it is known by them and they use such notions to develop your fears and utilize the terror to sustain your complicity in their machinations. Your cowardice and, frankly, laziness are what stop you from pushing the envelope of your souls. Open their door and reveal them for yourself. Life is beyond any presentation of ordained paths that may be sold to you, particularly, in the masked secular society where you find your selves.

Religion is a sentiment – a feeling, not the cruel false illusions so easily consumed. Do not be fed the gospel. See the repressed human Nature under society’s mask. In my time, our faith was used by the Church to subject nearly all of us to Contemptus Mundi wherein life is not but a miserable precursor to our “true” lives in the afterlife; in your time, your lack of faith is used to subject you to a credence of life wherein the pains and joys experienced hold no meaning. They define your morality, and you sign their contract without realization. They use all the fear of Death in the world to limit the grand luster that can be found in Life.

​Life is a risk to be sure, but it is an inevitability. Each of you is responsible for the actions you take to experience Life. You may choose to be willfully ignorant of the meaning behind all of it and by doing so abandon your own souls or you may choose to find your own meaning and take fate into your hands. It would be illusional of me to claim that I or anyone has a final vision of anything, much less the complexity of the experience, but that is precisely the point: your souls are not meant to be thought of as way to achieve spoils in the afterlife. Do not humanize the divine, rather find the divinity within mankind. Should you provoke reality, you will come to discern the nearly inarticulable elements of the experience. For you to do this, you must realize your own divinity; you must not dismiss your Natural tools to comprehend the actuality around you or your naivety will succumb to ignorance.

​Our human Nature is frightening to those of you who have not or refuse to accept your reality. The reality is that Life is the only response to Death, and balancing firm and solitary between the two is humanity. We live the most physical of lives and giving importance to our bodies it a necessity in identifying the realities we find ourselves in. To accept such realities is not simply an admission that you have no wherewithal to challenge it, nor does it mean that you cannot be pessimistic and relinquish your self-sovereignty in order to find your place in the chaotic, Natural world. You are human and should decide the best response for your own desires. It is a law that we strive for what we want even at the expense of others. As long as most people continue to claim themselves as altruistic but remain too inept to act, worry not of their desires.

My virtuous readers, no matter how bad you perceive your longings to be, I am here to lovingly impart the message that they could never be worse than your repression of them. You are obligated to your self to respond and actualize your desires. By recognizing your cravings and acting to achieve them, you can learn of Fortune. Here, I warn you all that studying caution is vital when interacting with Fortune. It comes in many forms, but should you discern and keep your wits about you, you may just find yourself being guided by it. Even so, you would do well to remember that once you have achieved what you want that it is not the end. Fortune is the enemy of those who prosper, as such, you should never stop reading Life for learning how to deal with it is the very principle of the journey from naivety to enlightenment.

​Our human Nature gives us all the same potential and it is completely up to each of you to manifest your self using your own free will. Herein lies the challenge of the society that they have crafted for us: there are too many varying facets to see and define for yourselves in reality while also understanding that others have simply drawn different conclusions. We use our language as a reflection of our minds to speak to existence who we are and hope that people will understand. When you and another come together, two realities confront each other. A fascinating dichotomy in which a lie is only a lie if it goes against someone else’s truth. Thus, we are all always playing tricks on and manipulating each other to try to sell our narratives.

You will learn from the stories around you and learn how to tell your own. The exchange of chronicles is neither inherently good nor evil; we are born beyond such trivialities, but they have taught us otherwise. Our Nature comes before all else, but they corrupt it by enforcing their rules of morality. Still, there will be those of you who prefer to live in the fiction rather than confronting the truth within yourself. It is you who accepts society’s standardization because you require pacification from the chaos of the Natural World. I urge you to renounce your greed and learn caution.

​“But what shall we say to those who feel such compassion for my hunger” (Boccaccio, 199)? Most gracious of my readers, I encourage you to be wary of those that present their truth to you as fact. They will believe they are better than they are – question them. They shall present a mask of righteousness to hide the wickedness beneath the surface and, in truth, they are much more dangerous than those that are admitting of their wickedness. When we do not have evidence, we allow ourselves to fall prey to those that can craft the most believable narratives. They know the game well; they play on our fantasies and so we are inclined to believe them. We accept the realities in which we stand to gain something, and our desires are part of our Nature that we should not refuse. Even then.

What can you do to handle this most difficult of social dilemmas? There is always something you can do, my lovely ladies. You must be human and confront reality, especially in the times when true Life is spiraling around you. You must question everything in order to elaborate on the reality of your own mind. What’s more is the pleasure you shall find in the confrontation with other’s beliefs for you should never be judged “too harshly for playing a trick on another, if the victim is being hoist with his own petard, or if he is simply asking to be made a fool of” (Boccaccio, 468). Howbeit, ensure you place great effort in avoiding prejudices and stereotypes as they cause and place you in dangerous situations. Nevertheless, it is with your language and tricks that you may take society’s mask off and force it to change. Affirm yourself with strength, dear readers, even with those that society tells you are your superiors. Bring your own authenticity to reality and you will remove the fear they have used against you. By challenging their masks of hypocrisy, you will pull the strings and their masks will fall. I forewarn you all the pitfall of idle suspicion; keep your composure or else they will be “…determined to let you have what you…” go “…looking for” (Boccaccio, 430).

Although it is proper to be firm in your beliefs, you need not be closed off to appraising the realities presented to you by others. The more you come to know, the more you will suffer. Do not find your fear again. Being human means that your constantly expanding experiences and knowledge will unequivocally lead to torment. “But it fills me with sorrow to go over so many miseries. Therefore, since I want to pass over all that I can leave out…” I am moved to proclaim that your pain leads to heightened levels of enlightenment (Boccaccio, 7). It is a never-ending cycle in our lives, but it is essential in our development. It is “like climbing a steep mountain side to a most beautiful and delightful valley, which appears the more pleasant in proportion to the difficulty of the ascent. The end of happiness is pain, and like manner misery ends in unexpected happiness” (Bocaccio, 2). While it is true the world can be treacherous and lead to an ill-fate, what they will not tell you is that our world is moreover brimming with pleasure, indulgence, and Life.

Fortune – the awesome guiding force – is well-nigh pale as Death compared to the democratic force of Love that we all pray to fall victim. We impatiently bide our time for Love to assault us. Perhaps, Love is more difficult to ascertain than even Fortune for we seek it more than any other pleasure in Life. The bad choice in Love is the superficial one, never the fearless option. You cannot look for a partner, my readers, love will simply strike you with the force of divinity. You cannot, and should not ever try to, force Love in your lives. It is not about pride, appearance, or attention. Love is not infatuation, rather it is the truest form of understanding. I once wrote, “The learned scholar, setting all philosophical meditations aside, filled his mind exclusively with thought of the lady…” (Boccaccio, 402). Love has not changed. Once you allow your Love to be primitive, you and your beloved become part of a shared reality that no one can take away.

You are a force to be reckoned with, but it is not until you let your self out that you are introduced to the power you hold over reality. Your Life – found in Nature; guided by Love and Fortune; built on the exchanges of human experience – is not so valueless to be remorselessly abandoned. Through the banishment of fear, you shall be unbound to express your self however you please. You will find that being true to your self becomes your soul concern.

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Il Decameron (1971) // dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini

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t h e d e c a m e r o n (il decameron), 1971 🎬 dir. pier paolo pasolini

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Quando leggi la novella sul ménage a trois del quinto giorno

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Il Decameron, Pier Paolo Pasolini

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by the way, Boccaccio is getting dragged by this Netflix show, yes. absolutely. I’m mad that one of the most important work of our literature has been reduced into an american “dolce vita” erotica dream.

but we have to remember how they treat their own literature, how they recently treated Shakespeare.

like okay. IT IS FUNNY TO INTERPRET THINGS yes, to joke on them, I’ve done the most out of pockets jokes here, so I’m guilty as charge, but I would also argue…to a certain extent (we don’t have to agree, so please don’t attack me). and also my silly memes on TUMBLR DOT COM cannot compare to multimillion hollywood’s productions.

just hear me out for a second, because I don’t think many people know this.

both the show "The Decameron" and the film starring Sidney Sweeney "Anyone But You" are described as LOOSELY INSPIRED by a literature work.

In fact, Sweeney’s film is based on the play “Much Ado About Nothing” written by William Shakespeare, who’s fame doesn’t need introductions.

now. The Decameron sort of sticks to the setting and it’s simply a 13-years-old-wattpad-fic version of the actual cornice (is not even the full work, not a novella is involved apparently). the real downside here is that they named the show after Boccaccio’s work. criminal. inoltre, la nostra letteratura è già più incline a cattive interpretazioni della loro (come eventi recenti dimostrano) e produzioni del genere non aiutano. La scelta del titolo è per me la cosa che aggrava maggiormente lo show.

but think about Shakespeare. what was that (I did see the film!). why. why. why. like it was so far form the actual thing that you couldn’t even tell. but at least the name wasn’t the exact same, which doesn’t immediately links the film and the literature work together. it already sets the film apart from “Much Ado About Nothing” and the difference between the two seems more justified.

they did Boccaccio dirty, but they have been doing the same with their writers.

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come specchio riflesso ci vorrebbe tutto shakespeare reso però sotto forma di fiction rai