The Decameron

"[T]he forerunners of the Renaissance were the troubadours, minnesingers, bards and minstrels, who aroused in the soul of a slumbering Europe the sense of nobler living in a time when Church and State were both asleep.

"Are not our story tellers...the true pioneers of a new revival of learning?"

--Edna Lyman

Art credit: The Decameron by John William Waterhouse