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17. Interview with the humanist Marianna Iannaccone on John Florio, Boccaccio's Early Modern translator Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories
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In 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--but they did get the virus under control, a feat which the United States has so far failed to accomplish. John Florio was an Early Modern Englishman of Italian descent who revolutionized the Engl...
In 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--but they did get the virus under control, a feat which the United States has so far failed to accomplish. John Florio was an Early Modern Englishman of Italian descent who revolutionized the Engl...
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