The Sweetest Young Man in Perugia

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Terry Jones introduces another tasty Renaissance tale. Starring Tim McInnerny as a husband with a dissatisfied young wife. The 100 stories which make up Giovanni Boccaccio’s humane and comic masterpiece come from all over the world They are vividly reset by Boccaccio among the flourishing merchant classes in the cities of Renaissance Italy. But their witty, satirical, bawdy voice sounds utterly modern, and their subjects - love, fate, sex, religion, morality - are universal. “Tricks that women play on men.” A young bride can’t work out why her marriage seems flat. Until she and her husband both meet the sweetest young man in Perugia. Pietro ..... Tim McInnerny Madam ..... Hannah Genesius Pandara ..... Jane Slavin Masetto ..... Monty d’Inverno Ercolano ..... David Acton Adapted in ten parts by Robin Brooks Music arranged and performed by Robert Hollingworth and Paula Chateauneuf Lyric translations by Silvia Reseghetti Script consultant: Guyda Armstrong Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in December 2014.