{"id":760,"date":"2020-04-22T11:03:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T10:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=760"},"modified":"2020-04-22T11:22:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T10:22:18","slug":"tales-from-the-decameron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2020\/04\/22\/tales-from-the-decameron\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales from The Decameron"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tales from The Decameron (1916) John William Waterhouse<\/em><\/p>\n

Tales from Giovanni Boccaccio’s ‘The Decameron’ are being currently being recounted [in synopsis form, with link to John Payne et al’s translation] on LCAHM’s Facebook page\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LCAHM\/<\/a><\/p>\n

In Florence in 1348 the whole city hunkered down and fought its way day by day through the worst pandemic Europe at that time had ever experienced. Ten young Florentines – seven women and three men – referred to as the ‘Brigata’ decide to escape the Black Death and stay in a villa in the countryside outside Florence for two weeks. Each agrees to tell one story each day for ten days …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tales from The Decameron (1916) John William Waterhouse Tales from Giovanni Boccaccio’s ‘The Decameron’ are being currently being recounted [in synopsis form, with link to John Payne et al’s translation] on LCAHM’s Facebook page\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LCAHM\/ In Florence in 1348 the whole city hunkered down and fought its way day by day through the worst pandemic Europe … Continue reading “Tales from The Decameron”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts-about-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}