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In the time of a devastating pandemic, seven women and three men withdraw to a country estate outside Florence to give themselves a diversion from the death around them. Once there, they decide to spend some time each day telling stories, each of the ten to tell one story each day. They do this for ten days, with a few other days of rest in between, resulting in the 100 stories of the Decameron. The Decameron was written after the Black Plague spread through Italy in 1348. Most of the tales did not originate with Boccaccio; some of them were centuries old already in his time, but Boccaccio imbued them all with his distinctive style. The stories run the gamut from tragedy to comedy, from lewd to inspiring, and sometimes all of those at once. They also provide a detailed picture of daily life in fourteenth-century Italy.
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Due fratelli gemelli che si sorprendono ad essere diversi. Un racconto di formazione in 38 minuti. Una notte in commissariato sognando Harpo Marx. Un cabarettista sull'orlo della schizofrenia. Una storia d'amore che non sa come cominciare. Un partigiano in un paese senza guerre. Una generazione che per crescere è costretta ad ammettere di non essere immacolata. "Latte" raccoglie dieci racconti che parlano di una generazione ma parlano a più di una generazione.