Crossword-Solution: DECAMERON
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Decameron | n. | A celebrated collection of tales, supposed to be related in ten days; -- written in the 14th century, by Boccaccio, an Italian. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “DECAMERON”
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| 600-year-old classic. | 1 answer |
| Boccaccio work with The | 1 answer |
| Boccaccio's "The ___" | 1 answer |
| Collection of 100 tales by the writer Giovanni Boccaccio, 1353 | 1 answer |
| Fourteenth-century Italian book of tales | 1 answer |
| One hundred tales famous since 1353. | 1 answer |
| BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI WORK | 10 answers |
| BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with DECAMERON (5)
Francis preached, the laughter of the ladies listening on the hillside to the quips of the Decameron, while plague-struck Florence howled beneath them--all this and much more I heard, joined in strange unison with voices earlier and more remote, fierce, passionate, or tender, yet subdued to such awful harmony that I thought of the song that the morning stars sang together and felt as though it were sounding in my ears.
Henry Boggs knew nothing of romance, and he cared less; he was wholly incapable of appreciating a woman with dark, glorious eyes and an expanding soul; I'll warrant me that he would at any time gladly have traded a "Decameron" for a copy of "The Gentleman Poulterer," or for a year's subscription to that grewsome monument to human imbecility, London "Punch." Ah, Yseult! hadst thou but been a book! VII THE DELIGHTS OF FENDER-FISHING I should like to have met Izaak Walton.
That popular writer, who derives his reputation from the Decameron, a hundred novels of pleasantry and love, may aspire to the more serious praise of restoring in Italy the study of the Greek language.
THE COOK'S DECAMERON Prologue The Marchesa di Sant'Andrea finished her early morning cup of tea, and then took up the batch of correspondence which her maid had placed on the tray.
The same naturalness and humor which marked "Don Quixote" and the "Decameron" also are seen in the "Canterbury Tales." Chaucer freed himself from all the affectations and extravagances and artificiality which characterized the poetry of the Middle Ages.
Quotes with DECAMERON (1)
Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in Greek and Latin histories that were not though fit for proper gentlemen to read, much less proper ladies. I know in precise detail what Caligula did to, and with, his sisters, and I can quote it to you in Latin or in my own translation if you wish. I am interested in historical truth, and truth in history is often unpleasant and distasteful to…
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1952–2003).