{{Short description|1972 comedy film}} {{For|the 1919 film|Der Herr der Liebe}} {{Infobox film | name = | image = Master of Love poster.jpg | caption = | director = Brunello Rondi | story= | writer = Roberto Leoni<br> Franco Bucceri<br> Brunello Rondi | starring = Rossano Brazzi <br> Tina Aumont <br> Janet Agren<br> Barbara Bouchet <br> Magali Noël | music = Stelvio Cipriani | cinematography = Luciano Trasatti | editing = Marcello Malvestito | producer = Oscar Brazzi | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1972}} | runtime = | country = Italy | language = Italian | budget = }} '''''Master of Love''''' ({{Langx|it|Racconti proibiti... di niente vestiti|lit=Forbidden tales ... of bare tails}}, also known as ''Decameron Sinners'')<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bondanella |first1=Peter |last2=Pacchioni |first2=Federico |title=A History of Italian Cinema |date=19 October 2017 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-1-5013-0764-5 |page=220 |language=en}}</ref> is a 1972 commedia sexy all'italiana co-written and directed by Brunello Rondi.<ref name="bio" /><ref>{{cite book|first1=Roberto |last=Chiti |first2=Roberto |last2=Poppi |first3=Enrico |last3=Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film|publisher=Gremese |year=1991|isbn=8876059695 |chapter=Racconti proibiti... di niente vestiti}}</ref>
==Plot == {{no plot|date=September 2024}}
== Cast == * Rossano Brazzi as Lorenzo del Cambio * Tina Aumont as Dirce * Janet Agren as Maddalena * Barbara Bouchet as Lucrezia degli Uberti * Magali Noël as Prudenzia * Silvia Monti as Felicita * Enzo Cerusico as Romeo * Leopoldo Trieste as Fiora's husband * Mario Carotenuto as Friar Bernardone * Didi Perego as Giulietta * Venantino Venantini as the soldier from Sicily * Karin Schubert as the peasant woman * Monica Strebel as the Death * Ben Ekland as Uccio * Antonio Falsi as Sarnacchione di Casteltroia * Michael Forrest as Bastianazzo * Lydia Brazzi as sora Amalia * Renato Malavasi as Giappo de' Guidacci * Marisa Traversi as the Prioress
== Production == Principal photography started on 26 July 1972.<ref name="bio" /> The film initially had the working title ''Maestro d'amore'' ("Master of Love"), which was intended by Rondi as an hommage to Ingmar Bergman's ''A Lesson in Love''.<ref name="bio" /><ref name="cur">{{cite book |last1=Curti |first1=Roberto |title=Mavericks of Italian Cinema: Eight Unorthodox Filmmakers, 1940s-2000s |date=31 May 2018 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-7242-7 |pages=130–2}}</ref> The title was changed by producer Oscar Brazzi (main actor Rossano Brazzi's brother), who also actively interfered with scripting, shooting and editing, even going so far as to shoot on his own some additional sex scenes that were not in the script, causing Rondi to leave the set in protest.<ref name="cur" /> Set in Tuscany in the Renaissance age, it was shot in San Gimignano.<ref name="bio" />
== Release == The film was released in Italian cinemas by Panta on 12 October 1972.<ref name="bio">{{Cite book |last=Giusti |first=Marco |author-link=Marco Giusti |title=Dizionario Stracult della commedia sexy |date=2019 |publisher=Bloodbuster edizioni |isbn=978-88-943385-3-9 |pages=388–9 |chapter=Racconti proibiti... di niente vestiti}}</ref>
== Reception == In spite of its high-profile cast, domestically the film was a bomb, grossing less than 100 million lire.<ref name="bio" /> It was generally badly received by critics.<ref name="bio" /><ref name="cur" />
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Category:1972 films Category:Commedia sexy all'italiana Category:Films directed by Brunello Rondi Category:1970s sex comedy films Category:Films scored by Stelvio Cipriani Category:1972 comedy films Category:1972 Italian films Category:Films about adultery in Italy