Overview
, is a 1973 Italian decamerotic comedy film lensed and directed for the most part by Joe D'Amato. The story and screenplay were written by D'Amato and producer Diego Spataro.
The film is noteworthy for involving Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio and Francesco Petrarca - some of the most important people of Italian medieval and renaissance literature - as well as Geoffrey Chaucer in a plot which presents Boccaccio's dream descent into Dante's Inferno as a frame for a number of story vignettes dealing on the sinful lives of the damned he encounters on his way.
Plot
Giovanni Boccaccio dreams of being led into hell, precisely into the department of "lechers". On his way, he learns the stories of some of the damned.
Two married couples agree to switch partners and enjoy the other's spouse.
A friar takes advantage of a young woman whose husband is insatiable.
A merchant entrusts his household to one of his nephews, including his wife, who instructs the young man in the art of sex.
A married merchant has a homosexual relationship with one of his workers; his wife threatens to tell everyone if her husband's lover will not satisfy her in bed.
A husband entrusts his wife and daughter to a music teacher, underestimating him as shy and harmless.
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