DECAMERONE 06/10 - Frate Cipolla

DECAMERONE 06/10 - Frate Cipolla - Storyteller: Mario Costanzi



This is a very special gift to the DE-CAMERA-NE House of Stories: Mario Costanzi is an Italian composer, musician, music teacher and therapist, researcher, philosopher - and priest who dedicates all his service to art and music. He has been composing for musicals and theatre performances all around Italy since 1985 and has also published several CDs. For the "Quarantine Stories" of the Italian Company Raccontamiunastoria he transformed the "Decamerone's" funny 10th novella of the sixth day into a song. For the DE-CAMERA-NE House of Stories he performed it in the town where the story takes place: in Certaldo, where Boccaccio was born in 1313 and died in 1375. He recorded the song about "Frate Cipolla" ("Brother Onion") who promises to show the people of Certaldo a feather of the angel Gabriel, in the "Casa del Bocaccio" where the poet spent the last part of his life. The house is now a museum and the seat of the Centro Nazionale di Studi sul Boccaccio.

Casa del Boccaccio: http://www.enteboccaccio.it/