Latest Boccaccio Podcast Episodes
18. What sparks political engagement? Boccaccio in 1358 and America in 2020.
Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories - October 09, 2020 19:00 - 36 minutesHere in the United States we are at the center of a global pandemic and the greatest political turmoil in generations. What sparks political engagement? In Boccaccio's Decameron, Pampinea berates her peers for accepting second-class status, and demands that they reorganize their society to ensur...
18. What sparks political engagement? Boccaccio in 1358 and America in 2020.
Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories - October 09, 2020 19:00 - 36 minutesHere in the United States we are at the center of a global pandemic and the greatest political turmoil in generations. What sparks political engagement? In Boccaccio's Decameron, Pampinea berates her peers for accepting second-class status, and demands that they reorganize their society to ensur...
17. Interview with the humanist Marianna Iannaccone on John Florio, Boccaccio's Early Modern translator
Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories - September 25, 2020 10:00 - 1 hourIn this interview, J.M. Meyer and Ania Upstill talk to Marianna Iannaccone, a John Florio expert based in Boccaccio's native Italy. As you may remember, Italy was the center of the pandemic in Europe in February and March, and implemented some of the strictest control measures outside of China-...
16. Imagining a more just post-pandemic world, Part 2
Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories - August 31, 2020 10:00 - 48 minutesWelcome back to Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories. In the second part of our segment on Black Lives Matter, we will continue our conversation with the artists James Edward Becton, Ashley Bufkin, and Justin Withers. Johnny Meyer will begin the conversation with a very brief chronology of ...
15. Imagining a more Just Post-Pandemic World through Black Lives Matter, Part 1
Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories - August 29, 2020 11:00 - 1 hourIn the next two bonus episodes, we are taking a step back from Boccaccio’s stories in order to bring more focus to the stories going on around us. Boccaccio’s ten young story-tellers are, in part, using narrative to elevate their minds above the plague that ravaged their home. They seek to point...
14. Discussion with Bob Jones, Ashley Bufkin, Erin Bogert, and Karen Alvarado
Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories - August 24, 2020 09:00 - 57 minutesWe've reached the third and final discussion episode for the last three stories in Day 1 of Bocaccio's Decameron. In this episode you will hear from actors Ashley Bufkin, Erin Bogert, myself Karen Alvarado as well as Bob Jones serving as host for our discussion. Enjoy! Translation by John Flori...
13. Pampinea tells a story wherein we learn why honest love agrees with people of all ages. (Day 1, Story 10)
Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories - August 22, 2020 15:00 - 11 minutesIn the 10th and final story of the first day, Pampinea tells the story of a young beautiful Widow who intends to shame an older yet dignified doctor. This story was narrated by Karen Alvarado. Translation by John Florio. Podcast intro: Karen Alvarado. Editing and Sound Design by Brady Marchand...
13. Pampinea tells a story wherein we learn why honest love agrees with people of all ages.
Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories - August 22, 2020 15:00 - 11 minutesIn the 10th and final story of the first day, Pampinea tells the story of a young beautiful Widow who intends to shame an older yet dignified doctor. This story was narrated by Karen Alvarado. Translation by John Florio. Podcast intro: Karen Alvarado. Editing and Sound Design by Brady Marchand...
12. Eliza tells a story about an aggrieved woman who uses wit to put a foolish king in his place (Day 1, Story 9)
Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories - August 22, 2020 13:00 - 4 minutesIn the 9th story of the first day Eliza tells the tale of how a courageous Gentlewomen changed the King of France from a meek coward to a just ruler. This story was narrated by Erin Bogert. Translation by John Florio. Podcast intro: Karen Alvarado. Editing and Sound Design by Brady Marchand. C...
11. Lauretta plainly declares that a covetous man is not worthy of any honor or respect. (Day 1, Story 8)
Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories - August 22, 2020 04:00 - 9 minutesIn the 8th story of the first day Loretta tells the story of a well-regarded court entertainer who, with a few clever words, checked the avarice of stingy rich man. This story was narrated by Ashley Bufkin. Translation by John Florio. Podcast intro: Karen Alvarado. Editing and Sound Design by...
10. Two monks, too many hens, a flood of soup, and four loaves of bread (Discussion of Day 1, Stories 4 through 7)
Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories - August 08, 2020 16:00 - 32 minutesWe've reached the second discussion episode. Here we will pause our recitation of Bocaccio's Decameron in order to hear from our storytellers. Bob Jones serves as today's host, and we will also hear from actors Regan Sims, Johnny Meyer, Diana Guizado and Reagan Tankersly, the readers of the prev...
9. Philostratus tells the story of a troubadour whose wit aids his remuneration (Day 1, Story 7)
Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories - August 08, 2020 13:00 - 15 minutesThe seventh story of the first day: Philostratus tells the story of a poor troubadour who uses a parable to reveal the ways in which the casual hubris of the rich can hurt the less fortunate. This story was narrated by Reagan Tankersley. Translation by John Florio. Podcast intro: Karen Alvara...
8. Emilia tells the story of a naive merchant who stumbles into the path of the inquisition (Day 1, Story 6)
Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories - August 08, 2020 09:00 - 11 minutesIn the 6th story of the first day, Emilia tells the story of a wealthy yet simple man who foolishly stumbles into the notice of the dangerous and powerful religious inquisition. As a consequence, a greedy inquisitor begins leeching the man's money, but the merchant uses just a few simple words f...
7. Fiametta tells us that there were too many hens for the one-eyed king (Day 1, Story 5)
Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories - August 08, 2020 03:00 - 10 minutesIn the 5th story of the first day Fiametta tells the story of a very beautiful (and very married) noblewoman who uses wit, cunning, and roasted hens to rebuff the not-so-subtle advances from the one-eyed King of France. This story was narrated by Regan Sims. Translation by John Florio. Podcas...
6. Monks behaving badly (Day 1, Story 4)
Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories - August 07, 2020 17:00 - 12 minutesThe two previous stories appealed to virtue--the fourth, told by Dioneo appeals to vice. In this story, a young monk who commits an egregious offence with a young woman, and then how he frees himself from the pain of punishment by cunningly, and scandalously, reprehending his senior Abbot with t...
5. Discussion episode: faith in storytelling
Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories - July 24, 2020 14:00 - 55 minutesIn this episode we will pause from telling Bocaccio's Decameron, and instead we are going to hear from our storytellers. You will hear from Bob Jones, Abishek Nair, Celine Dirkes and Ania Upstill our first four readers of the stories you just listened to. In the first of our discussions, the fou...
5. Discussion episode: faith in storytelling
Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories - July 24, 2020 14:00 - 55 minutesIn this episode we will pause from telling Bocaccio's Decameron, and instead we are going to hear from our storytellers. You will hear from Bob Jones, Abishek Nair, Celine Dirkes and Ania Upstill our first four readers of the stories you just listened to. In the first of our discussions, the fou...
4. Nephilia introduces us to an unusual perspective on faith (Day 1, Story 3)
Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories - July 23, 2020 17:00 - 7 minutesIn the second story of the first day, Nephilia tells the tale of a virtuous man who is begged to convert from the Jewish faith to the Christian religion. After visiting the corrupt clergy of Rome, he makes a surprising decision. Building off of the previous episode, Neiphila concentrates on the ...
4. Philomena tells the parable of the three rings (Day 1, Story 3)
Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories - July 23, 2020 17:00 - 8 minutesIn this episode of Decameron 2020, Ania Upstill reads for Philomena and tells the tale of the Three Rings: a parable in which King Saladin poses a tricky question: Which of the three Abrahamic religions is best? He receives a surprising answer. Podcast intro: Karen Alvarado. Editing and Sound ...
3. Philomena tells the parable of the three rings (Day 1, Story 2)
Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories - July 22, 2020 17:00 - 11 minutesIn this episode of Decameron 2020, Ania Upstill reads for Philomena and tells the tale of the Three Rings: a parable in which King Saladin poses a tricky question: Which of the three Abrahamic religions is best? He receives a surprising answer. Podcast intro: Karen Alvarado. Editing and Sound ...
3. Nephilia introduces us to an unusual perspective on faith (Day 1, Story 2)
Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories - July 22, 2020 17:00 - 12 minutesIn the second story of the first day, Nephilia tells the tale of a virtuous man who is begged to convert from the Jewish faith to the Christian religion. After visiting the corrupt clergy of Rome, he makes a surprising decision. Building off of the previous episode, Neiphila concentrates on the ...
2. Panfilo tells the story of a sinful man mistakenly venerated as a saint (Day 1, Story 1)
Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories - July 22, 2020 00:00 - 34 minutesIn the first story of the first day Pamphilus tells the story of a very bad man who, thanks to a false deathbed confession, is forever venerated as the most holy of saints. This story was adapted and narrated by Abishek Nair (MFA, Rutgers Mason Gross). Podcast intro: Karen Alvarado. Editing ...
1. Giovanni Boccaccio's Introduction to 'The Decameron'
Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories - July 21, 2020 00:00 - 1 hourBob Jones (MFA, Mary Baldwin) recites the introduction to Giovanni Boccaccio's influential, often cited, (and rarely read) The Decameron. Podcast intro: Karen Alvarado. Editing and Sound Design by Brady Marchand. Copy editing by Bob Jones, Ania Upstill, Karen Alvarado, and J.M. Meyer. Project ...
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