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Boccaccio (also known as The Nights of Boccaccio) is a 1972 Italian comedy film written and directed by Bruno Corbucci. It is loosely based on the Giovanni Boccaccio's novel Decameron, and it is part of a series of derivative comedies based on the success of Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Decameron (1971). Cast Alighiero Noschese: Lambertuccio da Cecina Enrico Montesano: Buonamico di Cristofano aka Buffalmacco Mario Carotenuto: Judge Nicola Sylva Koscina: Fiammetta Isabella Biagini: Ambruogia Raymond Bussières: Cagastraccio Bernard Blier: dottor Mazzeo Pia Giancaro: Monna Lisa Paola Tedesco : Lidia Andrea Fabbricatore: Calandrino Pascale Petit: Giletta di Narbona María Baxa: Tebalda Rosita Pisano: Mannocchia Sandro Dori: Nicostrato Lino Banfi: Father Ignazio da Canosa Pippo Franco: Bruno degli Olivieri Toni Ucci: Pietro da Vinciolo Franca Dominici: Perdicca Luisa Dominici: Belcolore Guido Celano: Messer Anselmo Andrea Aureli: Maso Hélène Chanel: Princess of Civignì Ignazio Leone: Il Bargello Antonia Santilli: donna nella tinozza Nello Pazzafini: Marito della donna nella tinozza Gastone Pescucci: Giovanni Cioppolo Mimmo Poli: Spettatore grasso Luca Sportelli: Loderinghi References

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Notable quotes

“Se medesimi esaltando con parole da fare per istomacaggine le pietre saltar del muro e fuggirsi.”
— They boosted themselves with such nauseating self-praise as to make the stones jump out of the walls and flee.
“Natural ragione è di ciascuno che ci nasce, la sua vita, quanto può, aiutare e conservare e difendere.”
— Every person born into this world has a natural right to sustain, preserve, and defend his own life to the best of his ability.
“La gente è più acconcia a credere il male che il bene.”
— People are more inclined to believe in bad intentions than in good ones.
“Una boccuccia piccolina, le cui labbra parevan due rubinetti.”
— A sweet little mouth with lips like rubies.
“Essere la natura de' motti cotale, che essi come la pecora morde deono cosi mordere l'uditore, e non come 'l cane: percio che, se come cane mordesse il motto, non sarebbe motto, ma villania.”
— The nature of wit is such that its bite must be like that of a sheep rather than a dog, for if it were to bite the listener like a dog, it would no longer be wit but abuse.
“Leggiadre donne, infra molte bianche colombe aggiugne più di bellezza uno nero corvo, che non farebbe un candido cigno.”
— Charming ladies, the beauty of a flock of white doves is better enhanced by a black crow than by a pure white swan.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Notable quotes

“Se medesimi esaltando con parole da fare per istomacaggine le pietre saltar del muro e fuggirsi.”
— They boosted themselves with such nauseating self-praise as to make the stones jump out of the walls and flee.
“Natural ragione è di ciascuno che ci nasce, la sua vita, quanto può, aiutare e conservare e difendere.”
— Every person born into this world has a natural right to sustain, preserve, and defend his own life to the best of his ability.
“La gente è più acconcia a credere il male che il bene.”
— People are more inclined to believe in bad intentions than in good ones.
“Una boccuccia piccolina, le cui labbra parevan due rubinetti.”
— A sweet little mouth with lips like rubies.
“Essere la natura de' motti cotale, che essi come la pecora morde deono cosi mordere l'uditore, e non come 'l cane: percio che, se come cane mordesse il motto, non sarebbe motto, ma villania.”
— The nature of wit is such that its bite must be like that of a sheep rather than a dog, for if it were to bite the listener like a dog, it would no longer be wit but abuse.
“Leggiadre donne, infra molte bianche colombe aggiugne più di bellezza uno nero corvo, che non farebbe un candido cigno.”
— Charming ladies, the beauty of a flock of white doves is better enhanced by a black crow than by a pure white swan.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Not who you're looking for? Others named Boccaccio: 1940 Italian operetta film directed by Marcello Albani · crater on Mercury · operetta in three acts by Franz von Suppé · 1920 film by Michael Curtiz

Overview

Boccaccio (also known as The Nights of Boccaccio) is a 1972 Italian comedy film written and directed by Bruno Corbucci. It is loosely based on the Giovanni Boccaccio's novel Decameron, and it is part of a series of derivative comedies based on the success of Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Decameron (1971). Cast Alighiero Noschese: Lambertuccio da Cecina Enrico Montesano: Buonamico di Cristofano aka Buffalmacco Mario Carotenuto: Judge Nicola Sylva Koscina: Fiammetta Isabella Biagini: Ambruogia Raymond Bussières: Cagastraccio Bernard Blier: dottor Mazzeo Pia Giancaro: Monna Lisa Paola Tedesco : Lidia Andrea Fabbricatore: Calandrino Pascale Petit: Giletta di Narbona María Baxa: Tebalda Rosita Pisano: Mannocchia Sandro Dori: Nicostrato Lino Banfi: Father Ignazio da Canosa Pippo Franco: Bruno degli Olivieri Toni Ucci: Pietro da Vinciolo Franca Dominici: Perdicca Luisa Dominici: Belcolore Guido Celano: Messer Anselmo Andrea Aureli: Maso Hélène Chanel: Princess of Civignì Ignazio Leone: Il Bargello Antonia Santilli: donna nella tinozza Nello Pazzafini: Marito della donna nella tinozza Gastone Pescucci: Giovanni Cioppolo Mimmo Poli: Spettatore grasso Luca Sportelli: Loderinghi References

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Boccaccio (also known as The Nights of Boccaccio) is a 1972 Italian comedy film written and directed by Bruno Corbucci. It is loosely based on the Giovanni Boccaccio's novel Decameron, and it is part of a series of derivative comedies based on the success of Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Decameron (1971).

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