boccaccio in quarantine

a book club for boccaccio’s decameron, in these plague days. join the discord (link ⬇️) to read along, and follow here for updates!

[boccaccio in quarantine @ildecameron]

salve! the schedule of our readings has been created! https://t.co/2icQcEcVTu

[boccaccio in quarantine @ildecameron]

hey everyone! today we’re reading day 1, story 10, and having a voice chat at 9pm eastern about all of book 1! drop in any time to discuss the first day of our brigata’s adventures

[boccaccio in quarantine @ildecameron]

i just said merry christmas instead of happy birthday. happy birthday is buon compleanno. two weeks of social isolation is bad

[boccaccio in quarantine @ildecameron]

good afternoon lads, today we’re reading day 1, story 6, about a guy sassing a monk. i have no appropriate pictures, but raphael’s birthday is either today or next week according to wikipedia, so here’s a picture of raphael and the cookies i made him. buon natale!

[boccaccio in quarantine @ildecameron]

anyone here good at fluid dynamics?

[litpatches_txt @litpatches_txt]

Boccaccio's Decameron but with realistic water physics.

[boccaccio in quarantine @ildecameron]

hello everyone! today we are reading day 1 story 5, which is about a woman deflecting the king of france's advances with a banquet of hens. please enjoy this picture of a future hen from @msichicago

[boccaccio in quarantine @ildecameron]

salve! today’s story is 1.3, about a jew outwitting saladin. here is a picture of saladin, who had an extremely twisty hat, from the uffizi

[boccaccio in quarantine @ildecameron]

evening everyone! today we're reading day 1, story 2, a fun little tale about giannozzo the christian, abraham the jew, and an unnamed terrible pope. since i couldn't find any illustrations, here's a picture of our brigata when they first met in santa maria novella, florence!

[boccaccio in quarantine @ildecameron]

@BluejoWalton @DecameronProje1 starting tomorrow actually! but thank you for the promo

[dante in quarantine @quarantinedante]

hi! made a discord! join us!
https://t.co/XlDq9mMCKA

[Jo Walton @BluejoWalton]

Excellence, organization, Getting Things Started -- @angeluspolitian has started a Discord group for team reading Boccaccio's Decameron in this time of plague! Join with this invitation, if you don't yet have Discord it's free to make an account https://t.co/lBuSsangiY