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The Decameron
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...
The Decameron
A complete edition of the hilarious, bawdy, irreverent masterpiece of medieval Italy--and an inspiration for the Netflix dark comedy The Decameron--in an acclaimed translation
In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines...
The Decameron
The Decameron
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...
Decameron
INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES - 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...
The Decameron (Signet Classics)
The Decameron
Set against the background of the Black Death of 1348, Giovanni Boccaccio's undisputed masterpiece recaptures both the tragedies and comedies of medieval life and is surely one of the greatest achievements in the history of literature.
Decameron
The Decameron: A Norton Critical Edition
Winner of the 2014 PEN USA Literary Award for Translation
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
- Fifty-five judiciously chosen stories from Wayne A. Rebhorn's translation of The Decameron.
- Introductory materials and explanatory footnotes by Wayne A. Rebhorn,...
The Decameron
The Decameron (c.1351) was written in the wake of the Black Death, a shattering epidemic which had shaken Florence's confident entrepreneurial society to its core. In a country villa outside the city, ten young noble men and women who have escaped the plague decide to...
The Decameron
Beautiful collector's edition of the famous Decameron: one hundred fables and fairy tales with the universal wisdom of great literature... With a new foreword. Written in the fourteenth century by Italian author, poet and scholar Giovanni Boccaccio, the Decameron...
The Decameron: Second Edition
Boccaccio's collection of bawdy, comic and sometimes tragic tales, which had an enormous influence on English literature, notably on Chaucer.
Decameron: Translated and Introducted by J. G. ...
INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES - 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...
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El Decamer [Spanish]
The Decameron
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...
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El Decamerón [Spanish]
El Decamer n, es un libro constituido por cien cuentos, algunos de ellos novelas cortas, escritos por Giovanni Boccaccio entre 1351 y 1353. Desarrolla tres temas principales: el amor, la inteligencia humana y la fortuna. Los diversos cuentos de amor en el Decamer n van de lo...
Decameron of Boccaccio.
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THE DECAMERON [Unknown]
The Decameron (Translated with an Introduction ...
The Decameron
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...
The Decameron
The stories have been chosen to represent the most notable of the author's themes and the most characteristic and influential examples of his narrative technique. All are in new translations by Mark Musa and Peter Bondanella which successfully capture Boccaccio's variations in...
The Decameron, Or Ten Day's Entertainment of Bo...
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De Decamerone van Boccaccio [Chinese]
The Decameron
About Wayne Rebhorn's translation "The Decameron has had numerous English translations, most of them bowdlerized or reliant on corrupt texts. The challenge is to move gracefully between the widely varying idioms employed for different tales and Rebhorn is notably successful in...
The Decameron
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