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Love Tales of the World — Part 3: More Tales from the Decameron
KacheliTV · 6 ноября 2026 г. · 1 ч 5 мин
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Love Tales of the World — Part 3: More Tales from the Decameron. Four more love tales from Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron (c. 1353), in John Payne's English translation of 1886, told whole and in the order of Boccaccio's own days. In the first, Girolamo and Salvestra love from childhood, and a mother's well-meant exile to Paris tests what absence cannot cure. In the second, Costanza of Lipari, hearing her lover Martuccio dead, gives herself to the waves — and the waves refuse her. In the third, Messer Gentile of Bologna rides by night to the sepulchre of the lady who never favoured him, and finds in it not death but life. In the fourth, Lisa, an apothecary's daughter, falls in love with King Pedro at his tilting and wastes away for a love she dare not speak. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. A note on the text: the Decameron tells a hundred tales; these are four of them, chosen for love's own engines, and no claim is made that this reading is complete or that these four stand for the hundred. The frame that holds the hundred together — the company of storytellers, the introductions of the days — is not narrated here; each tale is told whole from its first story paragraph to its last sentence. Two period ethnonyms in the second tale are rendered in neutral modern terms ("Barbary ships"; "a very good lady of that country"); no other such terms occur in the four tales. Chapters: 0:35 Introduction 2:12 Girolamo and Salvestra 15:01 Costanza and Martuccio 30:15 The Lady Restored to Life 47:10 Lisa and the King Source: Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron (c. 1353), in the English translation of John Payne (1886), public domain (Project Gutenberg #23700). Music: "Gangster Piano Symphony", an instrumental from the KacheliTV music library, heard at the opening, between the tales, and at the close; "January Lament", an instrumental from the same library, plays quietly beneath the reading as a background bed. Narrated by Mischievous River for KacheliTV.