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Giovanni Boccaccio, Dante, and Petrarch were the leading lights in a century that is considered the beginning of the Italian Renaissance. The Decameron, or Ten Days' Entertainment, is his most famous work, a collection of stories considered representative of the Middle Ages, as well as a product of the Renaissance.

In old Bari, everyone knows Maria De Santis as “Malacarne,” the bad seed. Nicknamed for her dark features, volcanic temperament, and resistance to rules, the headstrong girl can only imagine the possibilities that lie outside her poverty-stricken neighborhood. Growing up with her mother, two brothers, and a tyrannical father, Maria must abide. She does - amid the squalid life to which she was born, the cruelties of her small-minded neighbors, and violence in a constant threat of eruption.

Sicilia, prima metà del Settecento. Marianna Ucrìa, una bambina che appartiene a una nobile famiglia...

Alla metà del XIV secolo Giovanni Boccaccio immaginò che, per sfuggire alla peste che nel 1348 stava decimando Firenze, sette giovani donne e tre giovani uomini si ritirarono in campagna, ingannando il tempo mangiando, danzando e, soprattutto, raccontandosi storie. Nacque così il Decameron, una raccolta di cento straordinari racconti, uno dei testi fondamentali della nascente letteratura italiana ed europea.

Ein Sommer in Rom, 231 Jahre und acht Monate nach Goethe. Mit seiner Ehrlichkeit, seinem Blick für das Wesentliche und tiefer Romantik hat sich Atticus auf seinem Instagram-Account @atticuspoetry in die Herzen hunderttausender von Menschen geschrieben, er gilt als einer der bekanntesten Instagram-Poeten. In eindringlichen Worten hält er sowohl die kleinen als auch die allergrößten Augenblicke des Lebens fest: den ersten flüchtigen Blick einer neuen Liebe in Paris, Nacktbaden in einer lauen Sommernacht, während einer nächtlichen Autofahrt laut einen Song im Radio mitsingen.