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The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio · 1353

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Sex & Religion

What this book knows

Desire is ungovernable, clergy are hypocrites, and wit outwits authority — pleasure itself is a form of freedom.

Sex: Primary
Work: Absent
Learning: Absent
Religion: Present

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Guiscardo let himself down by the rope into the grotto and there awaited the lady, who dismissed her women and shut herself up alone in her chamber.
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Paganino the corsair, espying the boats, carried the judge's fair lady aboard the galliot in full sight of Messer Ricciardo and made off without recking of aught else.
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'Sir, you will pardon me; I have seen enough of you to know that I never before set eyes on you' — the lady denying her own husband before his rival.
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She carried him into her chamber, all redolent of roses, and he firmly believed her to be no less than a great lady — a freshman entirely in her power.
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The monk pretended to believe the abbot had placed the girl on his breast out of humility and a desire to mortify his flesh in the very act of pleasure.
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The fire denounced against him was by favour commuted into a cross, and the inquisitor imposed it yellow upon black — after receiving his money.
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