Talk:The Decameron

message: Please see the novel.  I'm not sure who considered the Decameron 'the first novel', but it sure isn't considered that any more.  It *might* be considered the first novel written in Western Europe in the Renaissance, but it is later than, for example, Apuleius in Latin (a clear model for all Renaissance prose authors) or the Tale of Genji in Japanese.  Boccaccio will have to rest on his own merits, not on 'priority'. --MichaelTinkler
I have changed that part. Does "The Decameron played a part in the history of the novel" sound neutral enough to everyone? --15lsoucy (talk) 05:57, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: old talk

message: Some of this article reads like a machine translation. Anyone have any idea where the original might be? Al 11:59, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation 

message: The impact of the Decameron is often overlooked by English speakers. Stories from it appear in works by authors like Shakespeare, Chaucer, and many, many others, often through a chain of translations, retellings, and modernizations. I'll look around for some exact information, but if others could start looking for others who borrowed from this work, I think that the article would be greatly enriched. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.182.216.157 (talk • contribs) .
:I agree it would be great to have that. --Stbalbach 15:32, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Great addition. -- Stbalbach 15:56, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Literary Impact

message: On sept 7th an anon user 67.67.120.228 took all of a few minutes of their day to dump a huge amount of non-sensical machine translated text into the article. The copy can be found here should anyone care to clean it up (good luck). Until then, what was a perfectly understandable vernacular English language, if not brief, article has been restored. Stbalbach 16:49, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revert of Machine Translation dump 

message: I've finished my work on the sources/influences section. Now I'm working on the Summary of Decameron tales article. If anyone could expand the commentary or make comments on the talk page, I'd appreciate that.--67.169.251.248 10:05, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources/Influences

message: Quoting the article:
"The famous first tale (I, 1) of the notorious Saint Ciappelletto was later translated into Latin by Olimpia Fulvia Morata and translated again by Voltaire. Molière later drew upon the latter translation to create the title character of Tartuffe." 
But surely Molière (17th century) preceded Voltaire (18th century), so how could the former have been influenced by the latter's translation? 84.55.112.38 20:25, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explanation please 

message: Can someone translate the names of the seven characters to help us understand how they are "pseudonyms chosen as 'appropriate to the qualities of each'"? 
The Seven Women:
*Pampinea
*Fiammetta
*Filomena
*Emilia
*Lauretta
*Neifile
*Elissa 
The Three Men:
*Panfilo
*Filostrato
*Dioneo
Sorry I'm such an ignoramus. Thank you. MishaPan 23:57, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Names of the Seven Characters 

message: One thing the article doesn't go into is how often Bocaccio anticipates modern "Enlightment" ideas.  The two tales of Jews (I, 2 and 3) both inspire the audience to sympathize with minorities whose religious freedom is attacked.  In (VI, 7) a woman on trial argues that it is unjust to judge a woman under laws made only by men.  In (III, 2) the listeners praise a king who uses clever detective work rather than midieval torture to solve a crime (and when torture is used in another story, the listeners know that the victim is innocent). The collection isn't just bawdiness.
CharlesTheBold 01:34, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bocaccio's modernity 

message: ===Film===
The film with Hayden Christensen and Mischa Barton should be mentioned. The Wikipedia page of Virgin Territory says so. Aixduran 12:06, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In fact there are a few film adaptations that should be mentioned.  Be bold, add it.  Oh, maybe I will. DonPMitchell (talk) 02:43, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Adaptations

message: The film with Hayden Christensen and Mischa Barton should be mentioned. The Wikipedia page of Virgin Territory says so. Aixduran 12:06, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In fact there are a few film adaptations that should be mentioned.  Be bold, add it.  Oh, maybe I will. DonPMitchell (talk) 02:43, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Film

message: "Shakespeare probably first read a French translation of the tale in William Painter's Palace of Pleasure."  Should that be "... of the tale, translated into English in ..."? Errantios (talk) 08:21, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Theatre

message: I did not see in the article where it says whether original versions exist, or if we are relying on transcriptions and translations?  PitOfBabel 17:08, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Existence of the Original

message: While Decameron certainly is a medieval text, I can't understand why it is defined "allegorical". Some numerological element and the symbolic names of the narrators (in the frame tale) are not sufficient to underestimate the realistic characters and background that Boccaccio put in his novellas, often stressing himself the historical reality of persons or families he talks about. --Broletto (talk) 20:05, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Medieval allegorical text? 

message: Is there a reason that there are no citations for any of this information? (Lonerdottiearebel (talk) 23:36, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: On a similar note, should all of the stories be cited to the same source? Or could we cite something at the top so that we don't have to cite every character that is added --Amarzipan (talk) 16:49, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Footnotes?

message: I've removed this infobox from the top of the article:
The box was added by Daniel Seton on 11 Aug 2008. The book exists.
155.198.213.89 (talk) 08:46, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox removed 

message: Decameron could be derived from  and  part, meaning having ten parts. It would better explain the form, without resorting to non standard compounding. This etymology is my own, not supported by authorities on Boccaccio nor etymology. --88.101.16.63 (talk) 21:13, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternate etymology 

message: In the Egyptian novelist Dr. Ahmed Khaled Towfik novels series "Ma Waraa Al Tabiaa" Each nine books, the tenth is made in a special episodic way called the horror circle. The horror circles are series of short stories narrated by different characters, Dr. Ahmed Khaled Towfik him self say he take that from "The Decameron".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.22.24.34 (talk) 16:49, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternate etymology 

message: Is there any reason for a paragraph under "Description" to be repeated almost verbatim in "Analysis"?
Maladroitmortal (talk) 03:12, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Repetition 

message: The Greek name would not be τὸ δεκάμερον, but rather τὸ δεκαήμερον, just as St. Basil the Great's homilies on the six days of creation are called τὸ ἑξαήμερον.  The κ and the rough breathing of ἡμέρα would be separated by the vowel, and would therefore not create χ, as the article now indicates when it says that the title classical Greek would be δεχημερον.  Also, for what it's worth, the title is not a portmanteau, it's simply a compound word formed according to basic patterns of Greek vocabulary. 136.242.166.205 (talk) 19:28, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Title in Greek

message: Each day also includes a short introduction and conclusion to continue the frame of the tales by describing other daily activities besides story-telling. These frame tale interludes frequently include transcriptions of Italian folk songs.
What does this mean? What does transcription refer to here? Just how are the Italian folk songs included in the frame tales? Could the sentence be reworked to use another word?
The Wiktionary page for wikt:transcription quotes this article as an example, and it's a bit unclear of just what it is an example of. (Does the Wiktionary entry need updating? Is it perhaps missing a definition?) 194.237.142.20 (talk) 09:37, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  transcriptions of Italian folk songs 

message: The section has no quotations at all, and it presents one homogenous view, as if it was based on the opinions of a single scholar, or the foreword of one specific edition.—Austriacus (talk) 20:57, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Retagged as para is pretty blatant original research.  Could still be made into something worth keeping with a few decent refs and judicious pruning.  217.43.55.206 (talk) 00:04, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unreferenced section tag for "Analysis" 

message: Hello! I have contributed with an image of one of Boccaccio's novels by a contemporary artist.  I think it is important to show how's Boccaccio work is alive through the centuries and continues to inspire artists.  This is the link to the image:
thumb|IV Day, "Apologo delle Papere", is the fifth painting of the series based on the Decameron by Meli Valdés Sozzani.
Give me your opinion. Thank you!
Eneaspicol (talk) 20:39, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: maybe i'm just a dumb idiot, but could we maybe get a synopsis in this article? 70.171.203.51 (talk) 04:35, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: synopsis?