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The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781434103574
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by . This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Medieval Italy, seven young women and three young men flee plague-ridden Florence for the countryside, where, over the course of ten carefree days, each tells ten stories of intrigue and romance-100 tales in all. First published in the 1300s, these lusty tales are still as entertaining and diverting as they were during the Middle Ages. Here noblemen and ladies, peasants and princesses, cavort together in a magnificent collection of timeless tales brimming with life and love. The Decameron is a big book, and most publishers try to pack it into small newsprint pages with tiny, nearly unreadable type. This edition, on the other hand, has been newly designed and printed on large-format, high-quality paper with easy-to-read type, making it a deluxe volume at a still-reasonable price.

Tales from the Decameron

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Tales from the Decameron written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Decameron

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486149463
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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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.

The Decameron

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 3985948461
Total Pages : 853 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book The Decameron written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio - The year is 1348. The Black Death has begun to ravage Europe. Ten young Florentinesseven women and three menescape the plague-infested city and retreat to the countryside around Fiesole. At their leisure in this isolated and bucolic setting, they spend ten days telling each other storiestales of romance, tragedy, comedy, and farceone hundred in all. The result, called by one critic "the greatest short story collection of all time" (Leonard Barkan, Princeton University) is a rich and entertaining celebration of the medley of medieval life.Witty, earthy, and filled with bawdy irreverence, the one hundred stories of The Decameron offer more than simple escapism; they are also a life-affirming balm for trying times. The Decameron is a joyously comic book that has earned its place in world literature not just because it makes us laugh, but more importantly because it shows us how essential laughter is to the human condition.Published on the 700th anniversary of Boccaccios birth, Wayne A. Rebhorn's new translation of The Decameron introduces a generation of readers to this "rich late-medieval feast" in a "lively, contemporary, American-inflected English" (Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University) even as it retains the distinctly medieval flavor of Boccaccio's rhetorically expressive prose.An extensive introduction provides useful details about Boccaccio's historical and cultural milieu, the themes and particularities of the text, and the lines of influence flowing into and out of this towering monument of world literature.

The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales

Author : Leonard Michael Koff
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838638002
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales written by Leonard Michael Koff and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That resistance, informed by a model of literary influence grounded on the idea of interruption, would keep the Canterbury Tales away from the Decameron, though not the rest of Chaucer from other works by Boccaccio. In the end, of course, that resistance tells us more about Chaucer's reception since the fifteenth century than about Chaucer himself or his sources."--BOOK JACKET.

TALES FROM THE DECAMERON OF GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

Author : Richard Aldington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book TALES FROM THE DECAMERON OF GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO written by Richard Aldington and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Decameron

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Decameron written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Decameron

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780520058729
Total Pages : 948 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Decameron written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 00 Singleton preserves the genius of Payne's language and style, but removes the Victorianisms that intrude upon the enjoyment of contemporary readers. He adds essential annotation and original interpretation to round out this unexcelled English edition of Boccaccio's great work. Singleton preserves the genius of Payne's language and style, but removes the Victorianisms that intrude upon the enjoyment of contemporary readers. He adds essential annotation and original interpretation to round out this unexcelled English edition of Boccaccio's great work.

The Decameron (Day 1 to Day 5)

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Decameron (Day 1 to Day 5) written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Decameron' is a collection of short stories by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio. The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men; they shelter in a secluded villa just outside Florence in order to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city. The various tales of love in The Decameron range from the erotic to the tragic. Tales of wit, practical jokes, and life lessons contribute to the mosaic. In addition to its literary value and widespread influence (for example on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales), it provides a document of life at the time. Written in the vernacular of the Florentine language, it is considered a masterpiece of classical early Italian prose.

Six Renaissance Men and Women

Author : Elisabeth Salter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351149067
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Six Renaissance Men and Women written by Elisabeth Salter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English Renaissance is frequently defined in the context of the Elizabethans and early-Stuarts, but here we focus on the early Renaissance, and the important cultural transitions of the late-medieval/early-Tudor period. In this innovative study, Elisabeth Salter reconstructs the lives and experiences of six men and women of the early Renaissance and leads us on a quest to reconstruct their lost cultural worlds. The six men and women are all figures from the margins of the royal courts during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII: Gilbert Banaster, present at the court of Henry VII in the guise of writer and musician; The Anonymous Witness, spectator to the marriage of Prince Arthur and Katherine of Aragon; William Cornish, playwright and musician at Henry VIII's household; Elizabeth Philip, silk trader to the royal court; Dame Katherine Styles, whose biography is recreated through her will; and William Buckley, Educator and Schoolmaster to King Edward VI. Salter presents an exemplary model of how it is possible to reconstruct biography from sometimes fragmentary sources. The connections drawn between these six individuals display ample evidence for the cultural innovation and sophistication of these courts in terms of pageantry, music, the visual arts, fashions in luxury consumption, scientific discovery and literary invention. When all six lives are added together as a whole, the book will lead the reader to a richer understanding of the cultural context of the early English Renaissance.

Decameron

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781840221336
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Decameron written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2004 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boccaccio's Decameron recasts the storytelling heritage of the ancient and medieval worlds into perennial forms that inspired writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare down to our own day.

Chaucer's Decameron and the Origin of the Canterbury Tales

Author : Frederick M. Biggs
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843844753
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Chaucer's Decameron and the Origin of the Canterbury Tales by : Frederick M. Biggs

Download or read book Chaucer's Decameron and the Origin of the Canterbury Tales written by Frederick M. Biggs and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major and original contribution to the debate as to Chaucer's use and knowledge of Boccaccio, finding a new source for the Shipman's Tale.

Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales

Author : Robert M. Correale
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781843840480
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales by : Robert M. Correale

Download or read book Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales written by Robert M. Correale and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2002 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication of this volume completes the new edition of the sources and major analogues of all the Canterbury Tales prepared by members of the New Chaucer Society. This collection, the first to appear in over half a century, features such additions as a fresh interpretation of Chaucer's sources for the frame of the work, chapters on the sources of the General Prologue and Retractions, and modern English translations of all foreign language texts, with glosses for the Middle English. Chapters on the individual tales contain an updated survey of the present state of scholarship on their source materials. Several sources and analogues discovered during the past fifty years are found here together for the first time, and some other familiar sources are re-edited from manuscripts closer to Chaucer's copies. Besides the General Prologue and the Retractions, this volume includes chapters on the Miller, Summoner, Merchant, Physician, Shipman, Prioress, Sir Thopas, Canon's Yeoman, Manciple, the Knight and the prologues and tales of the Man of Law and Wife of Bath.Contributors: PETER BEIDLER, KENNETH A. BLEETH, LAUREL BROUGHTON, JOANNE CHARBONNEAU, WILLIAM E. COLEMAN, CAROLYN P. COLLETTE, VINCENT DI MARCO, PETER FIELD, TRAUGOTT LAWLER, ANITA OBERMEIER, ROBERT RAYMO, CHRISTINE RICHARDSON-HEY, JOHN SCATTERGOOD, NIGEL S. THOMPSON, EDWARD WHEATLEY, JOHN WITHRINGTON,

The Decameron - Scholar's Choice Edition

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781298360151
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Decameron - Scholar's Choice Edition written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-16 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Decameron takes place during the time of the Black Death. A group of ten people, seven women and three men, flee from plague-ridden Florence to a deserted villa in the Italian countryside. Over the course of two weeks during the evenings, each person tells ten stories. By the end of the book they have told 100 stories. The tales range from clever, sad, erotic and funny. Boccaccio's work, completed by 1353, also provides an interesting insight to life during this time period.

A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Age of the Marvelous

Author : Suzanne Magnanini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350285900
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Age of the Marvelous written by Suzanne Magnanini and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? Drawing on the contributions of scholars working on Italian, French, English, Ottoman Turkish, and Japanese tale traditions, this book underscores the striking mobility and malleability of fairy tales written in the years 1450 to 1650. The essays examine how early modern scientific theories, debates on the efficacy of witchcraft, conceptions of race and gender, religious beliefs, the aesthetics of landscape, and censorial practices all shaped the representations of magic and marvels in the tales of this period. Tracing the fairy tale's swift movement across linguistic and geographic borders, through verse and prose versions, from the printed page to the early modern stage, this volume demonstrates the ways in which these fantastic literary texts explored the ideological borders constructed by different societies. An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of literature, history and cultural studies, contributors explore themes including: forms of the marvelous, adaption, gender and sexuality, humans and non-humans, monsters and the monstrous, space, socialization, and power. A Cultural History of Fairy Tales (6-volume set) A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in Antiquity is also available as a part of a 6-volume set, A Cultural History of Fairy Tales, tracing fairy tales from antiquity to the present day, available in print, or within a fully-searchable digital library accessible through institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com). Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com.

The Decameron, Preserved to Posterity

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Decameron, Preserved to Posterity written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death. The stories are told in a country villa outside the city of Florence by ten young noble men and women who are seeking to escape the ravages of the plague. Boccaccio's skill as a dramatist is masterfully displayed in these vivid portraits of people from all stations in life, with plots that revel in a bewildering variety of human reactions.