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Boccaccios Decameron And The Ciceronian Renaissance
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Book Synopsis Boccaccio’s Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance by : M. Grudin
Download or read book Boccaccio’s Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance written by M. Grudin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boccaccio's Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance demonstrates that Boccaccio's puzzling masterpiece takes on organic consistency when viewed as an early modern adaptation of a pre-Christian, humanistic vision.
Book Synopsis The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by : Giovanni Boccaccio
Download or read book The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Boccaccian Renaissance by : Martin Eisner
Download or read book A Boccaccian Renaissance written by Martin Eisner and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Boccaccian Renaissance brings together essays written by internationally recognized scholars in diverse national traditions to respond to the largely unaddressed question of Boccaccio’s impact on early modern literature and culture in Italy and Europe. Martin Eisner and David Lummus co-edit the first comprehensive examination in English of Boccaccio’s impact on the Renaissance. The essays investigate what it means to follow a Boccaccian model, in tandem with or in place of ancient authors such as Vergil or Cicero, or modern poets such as Dante or Petrarch. The book probes how deeply the Latin and vernacular works of Boccaccio spoke to the Renaissance humanists of the fifteenth century. It treats not only the literary legacy of Boccaccio’s works but also their paradoxical importance for the history of the Italian language and reception in theater and books of conduct. While the geographical focus of many of the essays is on Italy, the volume concludes with three studies that open new inroads to understanding his influence on Spanish, French, and English writers across the sixteenth century. The book will appeal strongly to scholars and students of Boccaccio, the Italian and European Renaissance, and Italian literature. Contributors: Jonathan Combs-Schilling, Rhiannon Daniels, Martin Eisner, Simon Gilson, James Hankins, Timothy Kircher, Victoria Kirkham, David Lummus, Ronald L. Martinez, Ignacio Navarrete, Brian Richardson, Marc Schachter, Michael Sherberg, and Janet Levarie Smarr
Book Synopsis The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by : Giovanni Boccaccio
Download or read book The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Decameron is a remarkable work of Renaissance literature, comprised of one hundred short novels in ten books. This superb edition contains every story in English, and is unabridged. The Decameron marked the emergence of new literature after centuries of relative quiet, as the Italian Renaissance got underway. At the time of composing the text, Boccaccio was already well-versed in many ancient myths and legends, together with folk stories which had long been part of the oral tradition in Europe. First published around 1353, this text was conceived as a single long narrative set within a country house. This frame story sees ten people - seven women and three men - sheltering from the epidemic of the Black Death: a pandemic disease which at the time was ravaging Europe. To pass the time and forget about the grim and deathly realities of the plague, they take turns to tell one another stories. The compendium Boccaccio put together is one of formidable and impressive variation. Divided into ten books, which are in turn divided into ten short novels each, we hear tales of erotic romance; of calamitous tragedy; of chivalric valiance; of raucous comedy filled with witty asides and jokes; and morality tales which teach memorable lessons on living. Together with its literary value as an undoubted masterpiece of the early Renaissance in Italy, The Decameron includes many details of everyday life and customs in the 14th century. Its wording reflects the variety of slang and expressions spoken by Italian people of the era. Given that it was composed in a time of great superstition, there have been various numerological and mystical interpretations of the Decameron's text. This edition is complete, with no omissions or abridgement of the text. It includes the Epilogue written by Boccaccio, and a full table of contents for ease of reference. The English text is derived from the authoritative translation of 1886 by John Payne which has itself been praised for its faith to the original Florentine dialect in which Boccaccio wrote The Decameron.
Book Synopsis The Decameron by : Giovanni Boccaccio
Download or read book The Decameron written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Decameron by : Giovanni Boccaccio
Download or read book The Decameron written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new translation by Guido Waldman captures the exuberance and variety and tone of Boccaccio's masterpiece.
Download or read book Decameron written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Decameron, also called Prince Galehaut, is a 14th-century medieval allegory by Giovanni Boccaccio, told as a frame story encompassing 100 tales by ten young people. The book's primary title exemplifies Boccaccio's fondness for Greek philology: Decameron combines two Greek words, Greek: dÈka ("ten") and (Greek: hemÈra ("day"), to form a term that means "ten-day event". Ten days is the time period in which the characters of the frame story tell their tales.
Book Synopsis The Decameron (Day 6 to Day 10) by : Giovanni Boccaccio
Download or read book The Decameron (Day 6 to Day 10) written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Decameron (Day 6 to Day 10)" (Containing an hundred pleasant Novels) by Giovanni Boccaccio. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Book Synopsis The Decameron by : Giovanni Boccaccio
Download or read book The Decameron written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of escapees from plague-ridden Florence pass the time by telling tales of romance in this landmark of medieval literature. Features 25 of the original 100 stories. J. M. Rigg translation.
Book Synopsis Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy by : Marina Montesano
Download or read book Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy written by Marina Montesano and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationships between ancient witchcraft and its modern incarnation, and by doing so fills an important gap in the historiography. It is often noted that stories of witchcraft circulated in Greek and Latin classical texts, and that treatises dealing with witch-beliefs referenced them. Still, the role of humanistic culture and classical revival in the developing of the witch-hunts has not yet been fully researched. Marina Montesano examines Greek and Latin literature, revealing how particular features of ancient striges were carried into the Late Middle Ages, through the Renaissance and into the fifteenth century, when early Italian trials recall the myth of the strix common in ancient Latin sources and in popular memory. The final chapter also serves as a conclusion, to show how in Renaissance Italy and beyond, classical accounts of witchcraft ceased to be just stories, as they had formerly been, and were instead used to attest to the reality of witches’ powers.
Book Synopsis Boccaccio's Decameron by : Dino S. Cervigni
Download or read book Boccaccio's Decameron written by Dino S. Cervigni and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Women, Enjoyment, and the Defense of Virtue in Boccaccio’s Decameron by : V. Ferme
Download or read book Women, Enjoyment, and the Defense of Virtue in Boccaccio’s Decameron written by V. Ferme and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing new ways of reading Boccaccio's masterpiece, Decameron , Ferme analyzes the dynamics between the women who rule the first half of the story. Peeling back the many narrative layers within and outside of the framework, this book unearths the complications and trickery surrounding gender and death in Boccaccio's world and culture.
Book Synopsis Boccaccio and Exemplary Literature by : Olivia Holmes
Download or read book Boccaccio and Exemplary Literature written by Olivia Holmes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first monograph to provide a comprehensive interpretation of the Decameron's response to classical and medieval didactic traditions. Olivia Holmes unearths the rich variety of Boccaccio's sources, ranging across Aesopic fables, narrative collections of Islamicate origin, sermon-stories and saints' lives, and compilations of historical anecdotes. Examining the Decameron's sceptical and sexually permissive contents in relation to medieval notions of narrative exemplarity, the study also considers how they intersect with current critical assertions of fiction's power to develop empathy and emotional intelligence. Holmes argues that Boccaccio provides readers with the opportunity to exercise both what the ancients called 'Ethics,' and our contemporaries call 'Theory of Mind.' This account of a vast tradition of tale collections and its provocative analysis of their workings will appeal to scholars of Italian literature and medieval studies, as well as to readers interested in evolutionary understandings of storytelling.
Book Synopsis Love and Sex in the Time of Plague by : Guido Ruggiero
Download or read book Love and Sex in the Time of Plague written by Guido Ruggiero and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a pandemic swept across fourteenth-century Europe, the Decameron offered the ill and grieving a symphony of life and love. For Florentines, the world seemed to be coming to an end. In 1348 the first wave of the Black Death swept across the Italian city, reducing its population from more than 100,000 to less than 40,000. The disease would eventually kill at least half of the population of Europe. Amid the devastation, Giovanni BoccaccioÕs Decameron was born. One of the masterpieces of world literature, the Decameron has captivated centuries of readers with its vivid tales of love, loyalty, betrayal, and sex. Despite the death that overwhelmed Florence, BoccaccioÕs collection of novelle was, in Guido RuggieroÕs words, a Òsymphony of life.Ó Love and Sex in the Time of Plague guides twenty-first-century readers back to BoccaccioÕs world to recapture how his work sounded to fourteenth-century ears. Through insightful discussions of the DecameronÕs cherished stories and deep portraits of Florentine culture, Ruggiero explores love and sexual relations in a society undergoing convulsive change. In the century before the plague arrived, Florence had become one of the richest and most powerful cities in Europe. With the medieval nobility in decline, a new polity was emerging, driven by Il PopoloÑthe people, fractious and enterprising. BoccaccioÕs stories had a special resonance in this age of upheaval, as Florentines sought new notions of truth and virtue to meet both the despair and the possibility of the moment.
Book Synopsis The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio - Part II (Dodo Press) by : Giovanni Boccaccio
Download or read book The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio - Part II (Dodo Press) written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by . This book was released on 2008-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of a number of notable works including: On Famous Women: The Decameron and his poetry in the vernacular. Boccaccio's characters are notable for their era in that they are realistic, spirited and clever individuals who are grounded in reality. It is believed he was tutored by Giovanni Mazzuoli and received from him an early introduction to the works of Dante. In Naples, he began what he considered his true vocation, poetry. Works produced in this period include: Filostrato, Teseida, Filocolo a prose version of an existing French romance, and La Caccia di Diana a poem in octave rhyme listing Neapolitan women. He began work on The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio around 1349. The work was largely complete by 1352 and it was Boccaccio's final effort in literature and one of his last works in Italian. Amongst his other works are La Fiammetta, Life of Dante and A Story of Ravenna.
Book Synopsis Boccaccio's Decameron by : Dino S. Cervigni
Download or read book Boccaccio's Decameron written by Dino S. Cervigni and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Boccaccio the Philosopher by : Filippo Andrei
Download or read book Boccaccio the Philosopher written by Filippo Andrei and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-07 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the tangled relationship between literary production and epistemological foundation as exemplified in one of the masterpieces of Italian literature. Filippo Andrei argues that Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron has a significant though concealed engagement with philosophy, and that the philosophical implications of its narratives can be understood through an epistemological approach to the text. He analyzes the influence of Dante, Petrarch, Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, and other classical and medieval thinkers on Boccaccio's attitudes towards ethics and knowledge-seeking. Beyond providing an epistemological reading of the Decameron, this book also evaluates how a theoretical reflection on the nature of rhetoric and poetic imagination can ultimately elicit a theory of knowledge.
