$25.33
- Paperback
848 pages
- Release Date
5 November 2004
Summary
A new version of John Payne’s Victorian translation, with an Introduction by Cormac O Cuilleanain
- 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 me…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781840221336 |
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| ISBN-10: | 184022133X |
| Author: | Giovanni Boccaccio, John Payne, Tom Griffith, Cormac Ó Cuilleánain |
| Publisher: | Wordsworth Editions Ltd |
| Imprint: | Wordsworth Editions Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 848 |
| Release Date: | 5 November 2004 |
| Weight: | 594g |
| Dimensions: | 42mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Classics of World Literature |
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio was born in France and raised and educated in Naples, where he wrote his first works under the patronage of the French Angevin ruler. Boccaccio always considered himself a Tuscan, like Petrarch and Dante. After Boccaccio returned to Florence in 1340, he witnessed the outbreak of the great plague, or Black Death, in 1348. This provided the setting for his most famous work, the vernacular prose masterpiece Il Decamerone (Decameron) (1353). This collection of 100 short stories is told by 10 Florentines who leave plague-infected Florence for the neighboring hill town.
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