[QUOTE]Originally posted by Marcus
[B]I've just read Boccaccio's review of Jessica Verdi's 'Plumbers Revenge. Hilarious!! Let's hope she has a sense of humour.

I'm hopeful that in the next chapter the plumbing protagonist will tie the fetching heroine in the arousing and inescapable 'lead pipe cinch' and gently torment her with his snake until she is flushed with desire and completely drained sexually.


I'm also hopeful that Ms Verdi herself won't mind the tenor of my review.


But I must confess that it would be im-pasta-ble for a Boccaccio not to be smitten by an authoress with such an inspired name.

What fourteenth century Florentine teller of ribald tales wouldn't look con amore on a woman who shares her first name with one of the heroines of "The Merchant of Venice" and her surname with Italia's greatest composer, that smooth opera-tor, Giuseppe Verdi.

O patria mia! Viva Verdi!

I see signorina Verdi as a dark-eyed Italian temptress, a slave to the fires burning in her erogenous calzone, wearing only a wisp of black silk and an enigmatic smile which suggests, in the words of our great poet,

"Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate." *


Boccaccio



*"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here"