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The Decameron - Selected Tales (Paperback)
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The Decameron - Selected Tales (Paperback)
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The editors have selected 33 of the 100 tales, including at least
two from each of the ten days of storytelling. Included as well are
Boccaccio's general introduction and conclusion to the work, as
well as the introduction and conclusion to the first day; the
reader is thus provided with a real sense of the Decameron's
framing narrative. In selecting from among the tales themselves,
the editors have looked to include the most interesting, the most
representative, and the most widely taught of the tales, as well as
a few (such as X.8, on the theme of perfect friendship) that are
less familiar but that the editors feel to be deserving of wider
circulation. The Beecher and Ciavolella translation conveys some
sense of the often extended structures of Boccaccio's sentences,
and a real sense as well of the different registers Boccaccio uses,
from the often formal tone of the framing narrative to the highly
colloquial feel of the dialogue in many of the more bawdy tales.
Throughout, the translators have chosen language that makes this
classic work accessible to twenty-first-century undergraduates. The
edition includes extensive explanatory notes and a concise but
wide-ranging introduction to Boccaccio's life and times, as well as
to the Decameron itself. A unique selection of contextual materials
concludes the volume; these include documentary accounts and
illustrations of the Black Death in Florence; examples of source
materials that Boccaccio drew on; examples from later medieval and
early modern literature (both in Italy and in England) of work that
was heavily influenced by the Decameron; documents (including
Petrarch's famous comments about the tale of Patient Griselda)
providing a sense of the early reception history of the work; and a
variety of illustrations from early manuscripts of the Decameron.
Like the versions provided of the Boccaccio tales themselves, the
texts in this selection of "In Context" materials have been newly
translated for this edition.
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