'Licentious Tales of Lusty Virgins', is a 1973 Italian decamerotic comedy film lensed and directed for the most part by Joe D'Amato.

[2] The film is noteworthy for involving Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio and Francesco Petrarca - some of the most important people of Italian medieval and renaissance literature - as well as Geoffrey Chaucer in a plot which presents Boccaccio's dream descent into Dante's Inferno as a frame for a number of story vignettes dealing on the sinful lives of the damned he encounters on his way.

The first version of the film was entitled Italian: Le mille e una notte di Boccaccio a Canterbury, lit.

'The Thousand and One Tales of Boccaccio in Canterbury' - a title reflecting all three subject matters of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of Life which consisted of Boccaccio's The Decameron (1971), Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (1972) and Arabian Nights, an adaptation of One Thousand and One Nights released in 1974).

Since the film's original director Joe D'Amato was at the time already working as cinematographer on Alberto de Martino's Counselor at Crime in the United States, the direction of the reshoot was given to Franco Lo Cascio.