La Normale reads Boccaccio: more than 300 long-distance readers narrate novellas from the Decameron

For the traditional Normale Readings event, the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa has devised to organize an extraordinary reading ... at a distance.

Starting Monday, March 16, the reading of one of the foundations of Italian literature has been launched: the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio: one hundred novellae narrated through new technologies. Each reader will be able to read a short passage by video, and once the videos are received, they will be joined together. Two novellas will be posted on the Normale’s social channels and on the Normale Readings Facebook page every day.

More than three hundred men and women readers have joined the initiative and make up the merry brigade. The videos will be online according to a schedule and at set times, at 11 a.m., 6:30 p.m. and often at 3 p.m.

The Normale Read ings are a long tradition of sharing and culture: each year the students and alumni organize a collective reading dedicated to a masterpiece of literature: an opportunity to discover and rediscover literature, all together. For the past two years, the Readings have been preceded by meetings and in-depth discussions on the author and the work with lectures traveling around the city given by specialists.

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La Normale reads Boccaccio: more than 300 long-distance readers narrate novellas from the Decameron

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