During his time studying law, Boccaccio was introduced by his father to the Neapolitan nobility, and he quickly fell in love with Maria d’Acquino, a married daughter of King Robert of Naples. He studied canon law for six years, before leaving to pursue his interests in scientific and literary studies. His father secured young Giovanni an apprenticeship at the bank, but it was not a career that appealed to him, and he eventually persuaded his father to let him study law at the Studium in the city. Boccaccio was the son of a merchant of Certaldo, and was almost certainly born illegitimately.īoccaccio moved to Naples with his family in 1326, when his father was appointed to head the Neapolitan branch of his bank. The exact details of his birth are uncertain but it is believed that he may have been born in Florence or Certaldo, Tuscany, where his family were from. Was ever a young couple more perfectly endowed! In a film where many, including some of the young, are gap-toothed, their smiles reveal perfect sets.Giovanni Boccaccio was born in 1313. In a film where everyone is mainly happy even the parents register pleasure that their daughter has "caught her nightingale" when they discover the young couple nakedly fondling each other after what one can only imagine to have been the night of all nights of lovemaking from the blissful start we have witnessed.
The girl tells her parents that she is going there to listen to the song of the nightingale. But my favourites are the young couple who have a naked lovers' tryst on a rooftop. Although some suffer embarrassing discomfort (the buffoon who falls up to his neck into a privy), most have a highly enjoyable old time the young convent gardener for instance who, feigning deaf and dumbness, has it off with a procession of nuns, who in turn register the joy of having witnessed "a miracle" when he eventually decides to speak. What I like most about the film is the sheer happiness of so many of the characters. Stories start and end abruptly, as if, having milked a tale of its naughtiness, the director is anxious to get on with another without the delay of a preamble. The subject matter is of course very different, but what fun it all is! "The Decameron" is, to my mind, the most original of the three. Thus the ancient buildings and open landscapes often teem with crowds of people.
They are conceived very much in the same vein as the earlier "Gospel According to Saint Matthew" with the accent on realism rather than stylisation. During the years immediately preceding the spellbinding horrors of his swansong "Salo", Pasolini created a trilogy of bawdy romps based on "The Decameron", "The Canterbury Tales" and "The Arabian Nights".
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