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Le Cene

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In Anton Francesco Grazzini
…comedies (written 1540–50) and in Le cene (“The Suppers”), a collection of 22 stories in the manner of Giovanni Boccaccio, purporting to be told by a group of young people at a carnival. (D.H. Lawrence translated one, The Story of Doctor Manente [1917].) The plays, like the stories and poems,…
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In Italian literature: Narrative
…in the 22 stories called Le cene (written after 1549; “The Suppers”) of the Florentine apothecary Anton Francesco Grazzini. The worldly monk Agnolo Firenzuola produced several stories, including the fable Asino d’oro (1550), a free adaptation of Apuleius’s Golden Ass. The cleric and short-story writer
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