Goslings in Decameron
Boccaccio wrote his Decameron, a collection of a hundred stories, between 1349 and 1360. This page tells the novella about Filippo Balducci and his son.
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Filippo Balducci and the Goslings
story by Jeanine van Riel.Geese in Boccaccio’s novella are just an excuse to elaborate on the inevitability of the natural act of loving (making love) one another. This tour will look at the role of the gosling. We open the tour with a few lines from the text …