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The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio - The year is 1348. The Black Death has begun to ravage Europe. Ten young Florentinesseven women and three menescap...
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This volume presents fifty-five stories, newly translated, of the hundred novelle that comprise Boccaccio’s masterpiece. Winner of the 2014 PEN USA ...
Boccaccio's Decameron recasts the storytelling heritage of the ancient and medieval worlds into perennial forms that inspired writers from Chaucer and...
Comprised of 100 novellas told by ten men and women over a ten-day journey fleeing plague-infested Florence, the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio is an...
Le Décameron est un recueil de 100 nouvelles écrit en langue italienne par Boccace entre 1349 et 1353. Le récit cadre est original : afin de fuir l...
This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Decameron Original Italian Text by Giovanni Boccaccio - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the be...
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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 vill...
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by G. H. McWilliam...
Bawdy and moving, hilarious and reflective - these stories offer the very best of Boccaccio's Decameron in a brilliant, playful new translation. This ...
Tales of Love, Wit, and Deception: A Renaissance Anthology
In 'The Decameron: The Original English Translation by John Florio,' Giovanni Boccaccio presents a collection of one hundred novellas told by ten youn...
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The Original English Translation by John Florio
John Payne's translation of The Decameron was originally published in a private printing for The Villon Society, London in 1886. Comprised of 100 nove...
"The Decameron" is a satirical collection of stories by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio. Written as the Bubonic Plague decimated the population of E...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was ...
The John Payne Translation
00 Singleton preserves the genius of Payne's language and style, but removes the Victorianisms that intrude upon the enjoyment of contemporary readers...
Now First Completely Done Into English Prose and Verse
Experience the Timeless Tales of 'The Decameron, Volume II' by Giovanni Boccaccio Delve into a world of wit, wisdom, and wonder with 'The Decameron, V...
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist in his ow...
Az erotikus világirodalom egyik főműve Boccaccio tíz napra osztott keretes novellagyűjteménye. A könyv száz elbeszélést tartalmaz, melyben h...
The story presented here dwells on courtly love in the atmosphere of Neapolitan court life. It is the story of Troilus and Cressida. The passion of th...
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