Chapter 39: Angels Need Propaganda Packaging (I)

Giovanni. Boccaccio, born in Florence, was a famous humanist writer of the 14th century and an outstanding representative of the Italian Renaissance.

If you want to count who is the funniest guy in the city of Florence in this era, Boccaccio is definitely one of them. This guy is cheerful and humorous, likes to chat, likes to joke, and likes to spread rumors, especially all kinds of yellow jokes. All kinds of true or false gossip news came to his mouth, and it was always said so vividly, just like the tabloid paparazzi of later generations and those "big Vs" on the Internet - most of you won't worship him, but it's hard not to like him. Put Boccaccio in China in the 21st century, and I am afraid that he can immediately become a top Internet celebrity with more than one million fans.

Of course, any excellent big V or paparazzi player is not trained in a day. Although Boccaccio loved literature and art since he was a child, liked to read, and wanted to be a great poet, he was regarded by his father as not doing his job. When he was about fourteen years old, the elder Boccaccio, despite his son's interests, sent him to study commerce in Naples, and later to study law, only to let the young man spend twelve years in vain—he was as stupid as a donkey during the six years of his internship in the trading house; For another six years of his residency at the court, he was as dumb as another donkey.

It can't be helped, for those unrestrained art wizards, boring business contracts and legal provisions are too torturous.

Fortunately, the court of Naples was relatively enlightened at that time, and around the king, in addition to the feudal aristocracy, early financiers, and navigators returning from the sea, a group of well-informed scholars, some of whom also knew Greek and Arabic, formed a cultural center in Italy at that time. Boccaccio, under the influence of his father, often had the opportunity to participate in some social events at the court, which broadened his horizons in the field of culture. During his stay in Naples, he began to write poetry in imitation of the elaborate style that prevailed at the time, after a short time in cultural circles, declaring that he hated business and the law, and added sensationally that he loved poverty and poetry.

- Of course, Boccaccio, who gave up his studies, professed to be "poor lovers", never forgot to ask his father for a lot of money.

Next, Boccaccio, who further degenerated from a stupid student to a prodigal, wrote a lot of fragrant and bold lascivious ♂ and crooked poems, and really made him a little famous. Obviously, poets always have to fall in love. So he also talked about love, and he chose women with great taste - Boccaccio's lover for himself was the princess Maria of the Kingdom of Naples, the half-sister of the future Queen of Naples, Giovanna I.

However, this princess Maria is not a genuine product, but the illegitimate daughter of the king, and a well-known ♀ in Italy at that time, in the terminology of modern medicine, the so-called female ♀ addict, often vividly compared to the "juicer" in later generations. So, even though Maria already had a husband at that time, she still felt that she was not enough to meet her needs in bed, so she recruited lovers on a large scale and squeezed their bodies and purses to the death—this extravagant and debauched "bus" princess was never satisfied with sex and money.

Perhaps all the writers of this world love bad women, and Boccaccio was so captivated at the sight of her that he affectionately called Maria a flame", and wrote many beautiful love poems for her, and I don't know how many times he devoted his courtesy. Because his pursuit of Maria was so crazy that even Princess Giovanna, who was not a queen at the time, knew about it. It's a pity that the glamorous reputation of "Little Flame" is widely spread, there are too many adulterers ♂, and the schedule is too full, and Boccaccio's turn is not available for a while. After five years of waiting, there was a gap in the bed of "Little Flame". Boccaccio hurried into it, finally tasting her taste.

After a year of ♂ happy adultery, Boccaccio began to lament that he ♂ had "dulled the knife of adultery" and that he had run out of money from his father—becoming a loser seemed to be a common problem of many great writers.

As a result, Boccaccio, who could not satisfy the demands of women in all aspects, was driven out of bed by the "little flame" and returned to his apartment to continue writing poetry. And the level of poetry was further improved - Boccaccio condensed the insatiable lust ♂ into a brilliant obscene ♂ poem. This 5,400-line obscene ♂ poem depicts all kinds ♂ of adulterous tastes, the joy of betraying morality, and the merry posture, and has become a classical masterpiece in the history of erotic ♂ literature, influencing many poets in later generations. At that time, it was an instant hit and a sensation in the literary world, and even Queen Giovanna was deeply impressed.

After some time, Boccaccio's father failed in his business and went bankrupt, and died in depression. Having lost his financial support and body, Boccaccio had to return to Florence and find a way to get a job in the government, while working as a paparazzi in his spare time, writing all kinds of lively gossip stories. But he still remembered Princess Maria's delicate jade body, and even wrote a female psychology novel "Little Flame", which describes the complex psychological changes of a woman in the ♂ process of adultery in a very delicate way, which can be called the old-timer of Freud, the master of sexual psychology.

Then, in the city of Florence, where the Black Death broke out, he met the sister of "Little Flame", Queen Giovanna of the Kingdom of Naples. There is also a group of time-travelers who use 22nd century black technology props to disguise themselves as "angels...... And it was very sad to learn of the death of Little Flame, the princess Maria, who had fascinated him for half her life, and had died of the Black Death last year, in 1347.

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--Knowing that this unremarkable guy in front of him was actually a literary master of a generation that has gone down in history, the travelers couldn't help but be amazed, and took a bunch of photos of him, and asked the frightened Mr. Boccaccio to sign them as a souvenir (he initially thought it was his own embezzlement of public funds)...... But after satisfying their curiosity, everyone had a hard time arranging this great writer who would be famous in the future.

Although Boccaccio became very famous in the history of literature in the future, he is now just a guy who writes best-selling little yellow ♂ essays, and he is not even qualified as a literary critic, and his social status is estimated to be similar to that of those H cartoonists in Japan in later generations. And his title of government finance official is useless at a time when the Florentine government itself is in disarray—the Florentine government's coffers, which had been carved up when the big men had fled for refuge, were now so clean that they could ⊥ a rat skate. As for Boccaccio leading the way, to show everyone who had the richest families in the Florentine city, Queen Giovanna and the bishop sent by the Holy See to assist him knew better than Boccaccio, who often had to borrow money from Florentine bankers to cover the deficit in the treasury; The latter often came to Florence on behalf of the Holy See to collect donations and collect taxes.

But it seems a pity to just send him home...... In the end, Doraemon had the idea to come up with a task that would allow Mr. Boccaccio to use his expertise: to ask him to help write poems and short stories in praise of cats as promotional materials.

-- Ever since he witnessed his stray cat friends being tortured and killed by "stupid humans" who had wholeheartedly helped medieval Europeans catch mice, the angry cat became more and more eager to transform the Christianity of this world into a "cat worship society".

Because this matter did not involve the core interests of the Church after all, and in the special context that the Black Death was about to devour Euro 6, and the "angels" were holding the only life-saving elixir, the Catholic Church basically did not oppose the above innovations, and accepted them all.

But even if the church is willing to cooperate in such small things, what can be done next, especially to reverse the long-held prejudice against cats in people's minds and to convince them that cats are beneficial and sacred animals...... This requires instructional materials, not just slogans—if you don't even have a doctrinal or manual, how do you get those propagandists to preach? I can't even convince myself

But the problem is that although thanks to the hundreds of millions of cat lovers on the earth in later generations, there are countless essays, essays, poems, and stories praising cats, and hundreds of them can be found on the modern Internet, even in Latin, Italian, and French, but after all, these are works that are centuries later, and they seem to be somewhat out of step with the style of the Renaissance in terms of ideology and genre format...... All the papal priests and nuns who read these articles brought by the traversers said that they felt very awkward to read them, and it was difficult to explain them to the faithful. And if they were to write according to the literary style of this era, all the time-travelers said that they could not put pen to paper.

In the past, because he had been focusing on looting money - after all, raising money to pay Doraemon back usury was the most important thing, so he could only put this matter aside for the time being, but now that he had met a great writer like Boccaccio in Florence, Doraemon naturally caught him and ordered him to take on the task of compiling the textbook of the "Cat Worship Club" - at least it seems to be quite professional, isn't it?

Unfortunately, even such a seemingly simple task did not seem to be very good for Mr. Boccaccio.

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