The Decameron (Abridged)

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-75) was an early Italian author and poet, a student and friend of Petrarch. Excerpts are read by top British actors including Rupert Friend, Coral Beed, James Rawlings and Maimie McCoy. A rude, crude, bawdy and often hilarious collection of sexy tongue-in-cheek tales, The Decameron is a fourteenth-century Italian collection of 100 novellas which heavily influenced the styl...