Maybe not everyone knows that, in the Decameron by Boccaccio, three of the one hundred novellas have as protagonists people from Salerno: a merchant from Ravello, a prince of Salerno and his daughter and a master of the Schola Medica Salernitana. The first of these is told in the second day by Lauretta and has as...
The Amalfi Coast, for its enchanting beauty, bewitched even Boccaccio, who sang it in this way: ‘(…) It is believed that the coast from Reggio to Gaeta is nearly the most delightful part of Italy. Fairly close to Salerno there is a coast that looks out over the sea, which the inhabitants call the Amalfi coast, that is...
