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Tales from the Decameron

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( 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 1930 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside. They amuse themselves by each telling a story a day for the ten days they are destined to remain there - a hundred stories of love, adventure and surprising twists of fate. Less preoccupied with abstract concepts of morality or religion than earthly values, the tales range from the bawdy Peronella hiding her lover in a tub to Ser Cepperallo, who, despite his unholy effrontery, becomes a Saint. The result is a towering monument of European literature and a masterpiece of imaginative narrative.

The Decameron

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book The Decameron written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the time of a devastating pandemic, seven women and three men withdraw to a country estate outside Florence to give themselves a diversion from the death around them. Once there, they decide to spend some time each day telling stories, each of the ten to tell one story each day. They do this for ten days, with a few other days of rest in between, resulting in the 100 stories of the Decameron. The Decameron was written after the Black Plague spread through Italy in 1348. Most of the tales did not originate with Boccaccio; some of them were centuries old already in his time, but Boccaccio imbued them all with his distinctive style. The stories run the gamut from tragedy to comedy, from lewd to inspiring, and sometimes all of those at once. They also provide a detailed picture of daily life in fourteenth-century Italy.

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.

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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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.

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.

The Decameron

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192836915
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (369 download)

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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.

Decameron

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1625583915
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (255 download)

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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.

The Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective

Author : David Lummus
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487508700
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book The Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective written by David Lummus and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sixth Day of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron marks a new beginning. Its first story is the structural centre of the one hundred tales and signals the start of the day’s reflection on the power of the word as the fundamental building block of human communication. This collection gathers together readings of each of the ten stories in Day Six of the Decameron – the shortest of the entire work. Featuring a diverse group of literary scholars whose expertise is not limited to Boccaccio studies, the collection offers both comprehensive accounts of the tales and new interpretations of their significance. A major contribution to the study of the Decameron, it will also serve as an excellent starting point for new readers of Boccaccio’s masterpiece. The readings demonstrate how Boccaccio engaged in rethinking or elaborating on the heritage of Western literature and thought, including the Bible; the works of Dante; the Roman literary, rhetorical, and legal tradition; the writings of the Church Fathers; and the ideas of scholastic theologians. These lecturae employ a range of methodologies that account for both historical and theoretical issues in their engagement with Boccaccio's poetic and ethical project in the Decameron.

Selections from the Decameron

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781853266188
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Selections from the Decameron written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Decameron

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Decameron written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Eaten Heart

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141964960
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Eaten Heart written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-08-02 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside from the Black Death and tell stories to pass the time. From the unfaithful wife who unwittingly eats her lover’s heart to the sly peasant plotting to seduce a whole nunnery, these are tales of lust, adventure and unexpected twists of fate. United by the theme of love, the writings in the Great Loves series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds. Readers will be introduced to love’s endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, illicit love, not to mention lost love, twisted and obsessional love....

The Ethical Dimension of the 'Decameron'

Author : Marilyn Migiel
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442625767
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Ethical Dimension of the 'Decameron' written by Marilyn Migiel and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With The Ethical Dimension of the “Decameron” Marilyn Migiel, author of A Rhetoric of the “Decameron” (winner of the MLA’s 2004 Marraro Prize), returns to Giovanni Boccaccio’s masterpiece, this time to focus on the dialogue about ethical choices that the Decameron creates with us and that we, as individuals and as groups, create with the Decameron. Maintaining that we can examine this dialogue to gain insights into our values, our biases and our decision-making processes, Migiel offers a view of the Decameron as sticky and thorny. According to Migiel, the Decameron catches us as we move through it, obligating us to reveal ourselves, inviting us to reflect on how we form our assessments, and calling upon us to be mindful of our responsibility to judge patiently and carefully. Migiel’s focus remains unabashedly on the experience of readers, on the meanings they find in the Decameron, and on the ideological assumptions they have about the way that a literary text such as the Decameron works. She offers that, rather than thinking about the Decameron as “teaching” readers, we should think about it “testing” them. Throughout, Migiel engages in the masterful in-depth rhetorical analyses, delivered in lively and readable prose, that are her trademark. Whether she is examining the Italian of the Decameron, translations of the Italian into English, commentaries by scholars, newspaper articles, or student essays, she asks us always to maintain an ethical engagement with the words of others.

The Decameron First Day in Perspective

Author : Elissa B. Weaver
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802085894
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book The Decameron First Day in Perspective written by Elissa B. Weaver and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inaugural book in a new series of critical essays on the Decameron will provide an important guide to reading the complex series of narratives that constitute the opening of the Decameron and will serve as a guide to reading the entire work.

The Decameron: The Classic Translation of John Payne

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8074844250
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book The Decameron: The Classic Translation of John Payne written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "The Decameron: The Classic Translation of John Payne" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. John Payne's translation of The Decameron was originally published in a private printing for The Villon Society, London in 1886. Comprised of 100 novellas told by ten men and women over a ten day journey fleeing plague-infested Florence, the Decameron is an allegorical work famous for its bawdy portrayals of everyday life, its searing wit and mockery, and its careful adherence to a framed structure. The word "decameron" is derived from the Greek and means "ten days". Boccaccio drew on many influences in writing the Decameron, and many writers, including Martin Luther, Chaucer, and Keats, later drew inspiration from the book. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) was an Italian writer and humanist, one of the founders of the Renaissance. He studied business but abandoned it eventually to pursue his literary interests. In 1350 Boccaccio met Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) (1304-1374), one the most important figures in the beginnings of the Renaissance and Humanism.

Tales We Tell Ourselves

Author : Edwin Higel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848407862
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Tales We Tell Ourselves written by Edwin Higel and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carlo Gébler has re-imagined twenty-eight of the original stories of the Decameron, drawing out the essence of the tales in order to let their true genius and wit shine. This is a text for troubled times, which will continue to resonate and provide solace for years, if not decades to come.

Stories of Boccaccio (The Decameron)

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Stories of Boccaccio (The Decameron) written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782491251871
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (518 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 2020-09-19 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Decameron is a collection of novellas structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and men sheltering in a secluded villa just outside Florence to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city.