Isabella and the Pot of Basil, 1867 William Holman Hunt

girolamo dies of grief as he lies next to salvestra, the love of his life, and her husband

illustration for giovanni boccaccio's "decameron" (fourth day, eighth tale), france, c. 1430-55

source: Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Ms-5070 réserve, fol. 170v

Isabella and the Pot of Basil

William Holman Hunt, 1868 // Arthur Trevethin Nowell, 1904 // John William Waterhouse, 1907 // George Henry Grenville Manton, 1919

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IL DECAMERON (dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1971)

Monica Vitti in On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who... (La cintura di castità)

Rockwell Kent, illustration for The Decameron (1949)

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Decameron

I recently read an article about the first Yiddish translation of the Decameron from 1710. Apparently it was a Yiddish translation of a Dutch translation of a French translation of the Italian original. The translator was a Dutch Jew who spoke Dutch Yiddish and wanted to make his translation accessible to other Dutch Jews, but also to Jews who spoke German Yiddish. And, for some reason, he wanted to avoid using Hebrew loan words (of which Yiddish had a considerable number by that point). So, he basically worked up his own dialect of Yiddish to try to meet all of these criteria. The end result, apparently, was that no one really liked it and it didn’t sell well.

It sounds like a linguistic hot mess all around, and I want to read it for that exact reason.

Lisabetta da messina

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Franz Xaver Winterhalter (German, 1805-1873) Decamerone, 1837 The brigata delighting each other with stories in the frame of Boccaccio's Decameron.

Bernardino Mei (1612/1615-1676) "Ghismunda" (1650-1659) Oil on canvas Baroque

One night, having fallen asleep after much crying and bemoaning that her lover had not yet returned, Lorenzo came to her in a dream, pale and dishevelled and with rotten rags for clothes, and he seemed to tell her this: "Oh Lisabetta, all you do is call for me and cry for my long absence, and fiercely accuse me with your tears; know thus that I cannot come back to you, for on the very last day you saw me, your brothers took my life."

Lisabetta da Messina in Pasolini's Decameron (1971)

father gianni attaches a tail to gemmata as he attempts to transform her into a mare

illustration for a manuscript of giovanni boccaccio's "decameron" (ninth day, tenth tale), france, c. 1430-55

source: Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Ms-5070 réserve, fol. 347v

Illustration to Giovanni Boccaccio`s Decameron by Heorhiy Malakov, 1960s

Ilustration for 'Decameron' by Boccaccio.

The Story of Nastagio Degli Onesti by Sandro Botticelli

The story of Nastagio degli Onesti, a nobleman of Ravenna, is the eighth tale of the fifth day in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. Possibly the darkest, most gruesome and supernatural tale in the entire collection.