The year is 1348. The Black Death has begun to ravage Europe. Ten
young Florentines seven women and three men escape 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 stories tales of romance, tragedy,
comedy, and farce one 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 Boccaccio s 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."
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