The Ribald Decameron

{{short description|1972 film by Giuseppe Vari}} {{Infobox film | name = The Ribald Decameron | image = The Ribald Decameron.jpg | director = [[Giuseppe Vari]] | writer = Gastone Ramazzotti<br>Antonio Racioppi | starring =[[Malisa Longo]]<br>[[Giacomo Rizzo]]<br>[[Orchidea De Santis]] | music = Mario Bertolazzi | cinematography = Carlo Cerchio | editing = Manlio Camastro | released = {{Film date|1972}} | country = [[Italy]] | language = Italian | runtime = 85 min }} '''''The Ribald Decameron''''' ({{langx|it|Beffe, licenzie et amori del Decamerone segreto}}, also known as ''Love, Passion and Pleasure'') is a 1972 Italian [[commedia sexy all'italiana]] film directed by [[Giuseppe Vari]] (here credited as Walter Pisani). Nominally based on the [[Giovanni Boccaccio]]'s novel ''[[Decameron]]'', it is part of a series of derivative erotic comedies based on the success of [[Pier Paolo Pasolini]]'s ''[[The Decameron (1971 film)|The Decameron]]''.<ref name="70dl">{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film|publisher=Gremese, 1991|isbn=8876059350}}</ref><ref name=stracult>{{cite book|last=Marco Giusti|title=Dizionario dei film italiani stracult|year=1999|publisher=Sperling & Kupfer|isbn=8820029197}}</ref>

== Plot summary == In the [[Middle Ages]], the intrepid Cecco earns eating in taverns and squares as a novelist. His specialty is to re-read the ''Decameron'' of Boccaccio, narrating the stories most erotic and licentious, whose theme loves of nuns and friars, and rich women who want to fool their old husbands with bold boys.

== Cast ==

* [[Dado Crostarosa]]: Cecco * [[Malisa Longo]]: Madre Lucrezia * [[Orchidea De Santis]]: Dinda * [[Giacomo Rizzo]]: Camillo * [[Patrizia Viotti]]: Tessa

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0068259}}

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