Italian Writers
With Peggy Reynolds.
3: Boccaccio. The Decameron,
Giovanni Boccaccio 's greatest work, grew out of the experiences he had in Florence in 1348, the year the city was devastated by the Black Death. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dryden and Keats were all directly influenced by Boccaccio's masterpiece, and both
Boccaccio himself and his work have been the inspiration for many musicians, Including:
Gherardello da Firenze /' Vo' Bene
Esther Lamandier
Suppe Boccaccio (excerpts) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Philharmonia, conductor Otto Ackermann
Bononcini Per la Gloria dadorarvi
(Griselda) Luciano Pavarotti (tenor),
Bologna Municipal Theatre Orchestra, conductor Richard Bonynge Vivaldi Agitata da Due Venti
(Griselda) Kate Eckersley (soprano), Fiori Musicali