Giovanni Boccaccio

An adaptation of nine stories from Bocaccio's "Decameron": A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich... (imdb)

Stop motion animated short by Jirí Trnka

The main story combines bits of Giovanni Boccaccio's own life (maybe and maybe not) with three of his most fabulous stories of love. It has Boccaccio following Fiametta to a country villa where she and five other women---The Contessa, Pampinea and three villa girls are hiding following the rape of their home city, Florance, Italy, by the Duke of Lorenzo. (imdb)

Antonio, not withstanding the romance between his daughter Patricia and Arthur, his servant, kills him ambushed. In a fit of somnambulism Patricia discovers the tomb of lover and bury the head in a vase. Ten years later, in an asylum, Antonio rent his old home to Celia and Fabio, newlyweds. Celia begins to hear the voice of Arthur and driven by hallucinations kills her husband. His uncle Roberto finds hallucinating and begins investigating the case.

Sexy comedy about a group of travelling players stopping at San Gimignano and the amorous adventures of Cecco who is a poet and a conjurer. (imdb)

Based on the collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio. A group of seven young women and three young men sheltering in a secluded villa just outside Florence to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city, start telling various stories.

The film, inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio's book Trattatello in laude di Dante, narrates the life of the poet Dante Alighieri as told by Boccaccio himself (wikipedia.org)