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The Decameron (Hardcover)
Giovanni Boccaccio; Foreword by Susanna Barsella
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With a new foreword. Written in the fourteenth century by Italian
author, poet and scholar Giovanni Boccaccio,
the Decameron contains stories told by ten young
Florentines who have fled the city to escape the Plague.
Presented within the sophisticated structure of a surrounding frame
story, the one hundred allegorical tales are shared through the
voices of these people as they spend their nights regaling the
company with tales intended to guide and comfort, from the erotic,
sensual, and bawdy to the intellectual, philosophical and tragic.
The work’s fundamental purpose is one of ethical instruction
through the means of beautiful and entertaining prose, touching on
themes of morality, fortune, human will, wit, virtue, female
agency, and love won and lost. This is Boccaccio's masterpiece and
is generally viewed as the work that confirmed his reputation as
the founder of Italian prose literature. It is also one of the
world's great literary masterpieces.
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien,
2002. Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures.
Vol. 116 General Editors: Tamara Alvarez-Detrell and Michael G.
Paulson The first epic poem written in Italian is the Teseida delle
nozze di Emilia (Theseid of the Nuptials of Emilia) by Giovanni
Boccaccio, the well-known author of the Decameron. Conceived and
composed during the Florentine author's stay in Naples, it combines
masterfully both epic and lyric themes in a genre that may be
defined as an epic of love. Besides its intrinsic literary value,
the poem reflects the author's youthful emotions and nostalgia for
the happiest times of his life. The Translator: Vincenzo Traversa,
a United States citizen born and educated in Italy, has taught
Italian language and literature at UCLA, Stanford University, and
the University of Kansas. He holds a Doctorate in English language
and literature and a Ph.D. in Romance languages and literatures
from UCLA. He is Professor of Italian and Humanities at California
State University, Hayward, where he served as Chairman of the
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures for thirteen years.
His works include Parola e Pensiero, Idioma in Prospettiva,
Frequency Dictionary of Italian Words (coauthor), Racconti di
Alberto Moravia, Luigi Capuana: Critic and Novelist, and The Laude
in the Middle Ages (Peter Lang, 1994). The Italian government
awarded him the Cross of Knight in the Order of Merit and he was
honored in the 2000 edition of Who's Who Among America's Teachers.
Originally published in 1986, this translated version of Giovanni
Boccaccio's Il Filostrato is of particular interest as the
principal source for Chaucer's great work, the Troilus. This
edition includes the original Italian alongside the translation, so
that even the English reader with no knowledge of Italian will be
able to make out a good deal of the original assisted by a close
translation.
Published in 1990: This book tells the life story of Dante, the
poet and his work.
Published in 1990: This book tells the life story of Dante, the
poet and his work.
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The Decameron (Paperback)
Giovanni Boccaccio; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R603
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While the plague ravishes major cities, a group of Italian men and
women seek shelter at a countryside estate telling stories to pass
the time. Giovanni Boccaccio's imaginative writing style elevates
the multilayered novellas ranging from romance to satire. Seven
young women and three men have isolated themselves in a villa
hoping to avoid the looming disease that's consumed their nation.
Every day, as a form of entertainment, each person tells a story to
the group. It must fit a specific theme, keeping the concept fresh
and inspired. The storytelling consists of romance and humor as
well as death and deception. It's a vibrant display of the author's
skill as he produces 100 captivating tales over the course of 10
days. The Decameron is a timely interpretation of isolation in the
midst of a global pandemic. It starts quaint but builds into a
massive narrative that spans genres and themes. With surprising
twists and turns, the book is an engaging text that will keep
readers guessing. With an eye-catching new cover, and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Decameron is
both modern and readable.
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The Decameron (Hardcover)
Giovanni Boccaccio; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R767
Discovery Miles 7 670
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While the plague ravishes major cities, a group of Italian men and
women seek shelter at a countryside estate telling stories to pass
the time. Giovanni Boccaccio's imaginative writing style elevates
the multilayered novellas ranging from romance to satire. Seven
young women and three men have isolated themselves in a villa
hoping to avoid the looming disease that's consumed their nation.
Every day, as a form of entertainment, each person tells a story to
the group. It must fit a specific theme, keeping the concept fresh
and inspired. The storytelling consists of romance and humor as
well as death and deception. It's a vibrant display of the author's
skill as he produces 100 captivating tales over the course of 10
days. The Decameron is a timely interpretation of isolation in the
midst of a global pandemic. It starts quaint but builds into a
massive narrative that spans genres and themes. With surprising
twists and turns, the book is an engaging text that will keep
readers guessing. With an eye-catching new cover, and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Decameron is
both modern and readable.
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L'Ameto (Paperback)
Giovanni Boccaccio; Translated by Judith Serafini-Sauli
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R1,078
Discovery Miles 10 780
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Originally published in 1985, this book contains a full translation
of Giovanni Boccaccio's L'Ameto, alongside textual notes.Giovanni
Boccaccio is famous for his great collection of short stories, the
Decameron, but his other literary accomplishments are generally
less well-known. Yet he helped revive the Latin eclogue and epistle
and fostered the study of Greek; he made the major Renaissance
compilation of classical myths, established the pastoral romance,
and began formal Dante criticism. Among his more minor works
belongs the Ameto, the first moden pastoral romance, translated
here.
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L'Ameto (Hardcover)
Giovanni Boccaccio; Translated by Judith Serafini-Sauli
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R3,243
Discovery Miles 32 430
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Originally published in 1985, this book contains a full translation
of Giovanni Boccaccio's L'Ameto, alongside textual notes.Giovanni
Boccaccio is famous for his great collection of short stories, the
Decameron, but his other literary accomplishments are generally
less well-known. Yet he helped revive the Latin eclogue and epistle
and fostered the study of Greek; he made the major Renaissance
compilation of classical myths, established the pastoral romance,
and began formal Dante criticism. Among his more minor works
belongs the Ameto, the first moden pastoral romance, translated
here.
Originally published in 1986, this translated version of Giovanni
Boccaccio's Il Filostrato is of particular interest as the
principal source for Chaucer's great work, the Troilus. This
edition includes the original Italian alongside the translation, so
that even the English reader with no knowledge of Italian will be
able to make out a good deal of the original assisted by a close
translation.
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The Decameron (Paperback)
Giovanni Boccaccio; Translated by Wayne A. Rebhorn
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R466
Discovery Miles 4 660
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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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Famous Women (Hardcover)
Giovanni Boccaccio; Edited by Virginia Brown
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R806
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After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence
of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio(1313-1375) devoted the
last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin.
Among them is "Famous Women," the first collection of biographies
in Western literature devoted exclusively to women.
The 106 women whose life stories make up this volume range from
the exemplary to the notorious, from historical and mythological
figures to Renaissance contemporaries. In the hands of a master
storyteller, these brief biographies afford a fascinating glimpse
of a moment in history when medieval attitudes toward women were
beginning to give way to more modern views of their potential.
"Famous Women," which Boccaccio continued to revise and expand
until the end of his life, became one of the most popular works in
the last age of the manuscript book, and had a signal influence on
many literary works, including Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" and
Castiglione's "Courtier." This edition presents the first English
translation based on the autograph manuscript of the Latin.
Genealogy of the Pagan Gods by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) is an
ambitious work of humanistic scholarship whose goal is to plunder
ancient and medieval literary sources so as to create a massive
synthesis of Greek and Roman mythology. The work also contains a
famous defense of the value of studying ancient pagan poetry in a
Christian world. The complete work in fifteen books contains a
meticulously organized genealogical tree identifying approximately
950 Greco-Roman mythological figures. The scope is enormous: 723
chapters include over a thousand citations from 200 Greek, Roman,
medieval, and Trecento authors. Throughout the Genealogy, Boccaccio
deploys an array of allegorical, historical, and philological
critiques of the ancient myths and their iconography. Much more
than a mere compilation of pagan myths, the Genealogy incorporates
hundreds of excerpts from and comments on ancient poetry,
illustrative of the new spirit of philological and cultural inquiry
emerging in the early Renaissance. It is at once the most ambitious
work of literary scholarship of the early Renaissance and a
demonstration to contemporaries of the moral and cultural value of
studying ancient poetry.
Giovanni Boccaccio's Genealogy of the Pagan Gods is an ambitious
work of humanistic scholarship whose goal is to plunder ancient and
medieval literary sources so as to create a massive synthesis of
Greek and Roman mythology. The work also contains a famous defense
of the value of studying ancient pagan poetry in a Christian world.
The complete work in fifteen books contains a meticulously
organized genealogical tree identifying approximately 950
Greco-Roman mythological figures. The scope is enormous: 723
chapters include over a thousand citations from two hundred Greek,
Roman, medieval, and Trecento authors. Throughout the Genealogy,
Boccaccio deploys an array of allegorical, historical, and
philological critiques of the ancient myths and their iconography.
Much more than a mere compilation of pagan myths, the Genealogy
incorporates hundreds of excerpts from and comments on ancient
poetry, illustrative of the new spirit of philological and cultural
inquiry emerging in the early Renaissance. It is at once the most
ambitious work of literary scholarship of the early Renaissance and
a demonstration to contemporaries of the moral and cultural value
of studying ancient poetry. This is the first volume of a projected
three-volume set of Boccaccio's complete Genealogy.
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Decameron (Paperback, New edition)
Giovanni Boccaccio; Translated by John Payne; Introduction by Cormac O Cuilleanain; Series edited by Tom Griffith
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A new version of John Payne's Victorian translation, with an
Introduction by Cormac O Cuilleanain. 1348. The Black Death is
sweeping through Europe. In Florence, plague has carried off one
hundred thousand people. In their Tuscan villas, seven young women
and three young men tell tales to recreate the world they have
lost, weaving a rich tapestry of comedy, tragedy, ribaldry and
farce. 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. Boccaccio
makes the incredible believable, with detail so sharp we can look
straight into the lives of people who lived six hundred years ago.
His Decameron hovers between the fading glories of an aristocratic
past - the Crusades, the Angevins, the courts of France, the
legendary East - and the colourful squalor of contemporary life,
where wives deceive husbands, friars and monks pursue fleshly ends,
and natural instincts fight for satisfaction. Here are love and
jealousy, passion and pride - and a shrewd calculation of profit
and loss which heralds the rise of a dynamic merchant class. These
stories show us early capitalism during a moment of crisis and
revelation.
In the summer of 1348, with the plague ravaging Florence, ten young
men and women take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain
themselves with tales of love, death, and corruption, featuring a
host of characters, from lascivious clergymen and mad kings to
devious lovers and false miracle-makers. Named after the Greek for
"ten days," Boccaccio's book of stories draws on ancient mythology,
contemporary history, and everyday life, and has influenced the
work of myriad writers who came after him.
J. G. Nichols's new translation, faithful to the original but
rendered in eminently readable modern English, captures the
timeless humor of one of the great classics of European literature.
A brilliant new translation of the work that Herman Hesse called
"the first great masterpiece of European storytelling."
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