After prepping by her two beautiful handmaidens, he gets to shtup Sarah every which way along with her maids.
And so I decided to close this year with The Decameron as a sort of introduction to the project, in order to be able to better recognise the stylistic innovations introduced by those later writings.
Or else, it is possible that Boccaccio was led on by a need to show that even God's servants are subjected to human follies and succumb to the temptations of human flesh.
Instituted by Pope Paul IV in 1559, the Index was a list of texts that were officially anathema to the Catholic Church; Boccaccio's Decameron was among the original texts included.
Let's just put it this way.
In Inferno, Francesca and Paolo read of Lancelot and Guinevere, and the story impassions them to lovemaking.
The geographical scope ranges over the entire Mediterranean, with a couple of stories set in France and England England is as exotic here as Saladin, a fantasy destination where dreams can become true there are no stories set in China or other far eastern locations despite.
US, then reprinted in Oct 1928, Dec 1928, April 1929, Sept 1929, Feb 1930.