Bawdy and moving, hilarious and reflective: these stories offer the very best of Boccaccio's Decameron—the inspiration for the new film The Little Hours—in a brilliant, playful new translation In the early summer of the year 1348, as a terrible plague ravages the city, ten charming young Florentines take refuge in country villas to tell each other stories—one hundred stories of love, adventure, and surprising twists of fortune that later inspired Chaucer, Keats, and Shakespeare. Now, this hugely enjoyable volume collects the best stories of Boccaccio's masterwork in a fresh, accessible new translation by Peter Hainsworth. It includes such celebrated, thought-provoking tales as "Isabella and the Pot of Basil" (famously adapted by Keats) and "Patient Griselda" alongside many boisterous and daring stories featuring faithless wives, philandering priests, and curious nuns. Written in an early Florentine dialect and influencing scores of literature that followed, The Decameron is a masterpiece of classical Italian prose. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Tales From The Decameron

Literature & Fiction

Giovanni Boccaccio

Short Stories & Anthologies

Penguin??Books

Excerpt from IL Decameron di Giovanni Boccaccio: Con le Annotazioni dei DeputatiDecameron ecc. Corretto ed Illustrato con note tratte da Var] dal Dott. Giulio Ferrario. Volumi IV. Milano. Dalla Società Tlpograflca dc'classici itallani contrada del Boccbello N. use. Anno 1808.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

IL Decameron di Giovanni Boccaccio: Con le Annotazioni dei Deputati (Classic Reprint)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Forgotten Books

Eclogues (Routledge Revivals)

History & Criticism

Routledge

The Decameron, or Ten Days' Entertainment, of Boccaccio: to Which Are Prefixed, Remarks on the Life and Writings of Boccaccio, and an Advertisement, by the Author of Old Nick, a Piece of Family

HardPress Publishing

This volume contains twenty-one of the hundred novelle that comprise Boccaccio?s masterpiece.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 diction and sentence structure. "Contemporary Reactions" includes Petrarch?s letters to Boccaccio after completion of The Decameron and the responses of such Italian Renaissance figures as Leonardo Bruni, Filippo Villani, Giannozzo Manetti, and Ludovico Dolce, all of which have been translated for this edition. "Modern Criticism" includes interpretations by Ugo Foscolo, Francesco De Sanctis, Erich Auerbach, Aldo D. Scaglione, Wayne Booth, Tzvetan Todorov, Robert J. Clements, and Marga Cottino-Jones. Thomas G. Bergin?s important historical overview is published here for the first time, while Ben Lawton?s study of Pier Paolo Pasolini?s filming of The Decameron and a general essay by the editors were written specially for this volume.

The Decameron: A New Translation (Norton Critical Edition)

Classics

W.W.Norton and Company

Stories of Boccaccio (The Decameron) ...: Including Also Ye Merry Tale, Now First Done Into English

History

HardPress Limited

Trenta Novelle Scelte dal Decamerone di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio: Precedute Dalla Descrizione della Pestilenza del 1348 (Classic Reprint)

While the Black Death rages through 14th-century Florence, a group of young people retreat to the healthful air of the countryside and amuse themselves by telling tales of romance and adventure. This is the premise of Boccaccio's Decameron, a landmark of early Renaissance literature and one of the world's great story collections. Vast in scope, teeming with colorful characters, and rich in worldly wisdom, these 25 tales from the original 100 encompass a variety of genres — folktales, ancient myths, fables, and anecdotes ranging from earthy satires of hypocritical clergy to gripping tales of murder and revenge and stories of passionate love. Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Keats drew upon Boccaccio's masterpiece for inspiration, and the grand old storyteller's fables continue to captivate modern readers.

The Decameron: Selected Tales (Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories)

Humor & Satire

Dover Publications

On Poetry

Poetry

MacMillan Publishing Company

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.

Famous Women (The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 1)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Harvard University Press

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