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There are 100 tales contained in the book which is presented together. If you enjoyed the decameron, you might like dantes inferno, also available in penguin classics. The decameron was written by giovanni boccaccio probably begun in 50 and finished in 53. His introduction illuminates the worlds of boccaccio and of his storytellers, showing boccaccio as a master of vivid and exciting prose fiction. The project gutenberg ebook of the decameron of giovanni. 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. The decameron by giovanni boccaccio, 9780451531735, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Giovanni boccaccio 75 was an italian writer and humanist, one of the founders of the renaissance. Decamerone giovanni boccaccio ebook online bibliotheek. The decameron illustrated by giovanni boccaccio nook book. At around the age of 16, i found it reassuring that boccaccio, in conceiving his narrators, had made most of them women.
In a country villa outside the city, ten young noble men and women who have escaped the plague decide to tell each other stories. In the summer of 48, with the plague ravaging florence, ten young men and women take refuge in the countryside. The decameron of giovanni boccaccio by giovanni boccaccio trans. Not that boccaccio was the first to complain bitterly about the church. The decameron, by giovanni boccaccio 75, made a great impression on me. Boccaccio probably conceived the decameron after the epidemic of 48, and completed it by 53. In the broad sweep of its range and its alternately tragic and comic views of life, it is rightly regarded as his masterpiece.
The american edition from which this etext was prepared is undated. John paynes translation of the decameron was originally published in a private printing for the villon society, london, 1886. Mcwilliams finest work, his translation of boccaccios decameron remains one of the most successful and lauded books in the series. The decameron is a collection of novellas by the 14thcentury italian author giovanni boccaccio, completed in 53. He wrote the decameron over a period of ten years, and is also the author of teseide and filostrato. The decameron by giovanni boccaccio, 9780199540419, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Giovanni boccaccio, dante, and petrarch were the leading lights in a century that is considered the beginning of the italian renaissance. In florence, in 50, giovanni boccaccio writes the decameron, a collection of 100 stories told ostensibly by a group of noblemen and women hiding in the countryside from the black plague, the effects of which are described at the beginning of the decameron in one of the worlds most horrifying pieces of journalism. Decameron by giovanni boccaccio books the guardian. While dante is a stern moralist, boccaccio has little time for chastity, pokes fun at crafty, hypocritical clerics and celebrates the power of passion to overcome obstacles and social divisions. Giovanni boccaccio s most popular book is the decameron.
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