Author: Osamu FukushimaPublisher: Cesati
ISBN: 9788876674600
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 923
Book Description
An Etymological Dictionary for Reading Boccaccio's Decameron: The eighth day-the tenth day
Author: Osamu FukushimaPublisher: Cesati
ISBN: 9788876674600
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 923
Book Description
The Decameron
Author: Giovanni BoccaccioPublisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
In the time of a devastating pandemic, seven women and three men withdraw to a country estate outside Florence to give themselves a diversion from the death around them. Once there, they decide to spend some time each day telling stories, each of the ten to tell one story each day. They do this for ten days, with a few other days of rest in between, resulting in the 100 stories of the Decameron. The Decameron was written after the Black Plague spread through Italy in 1348. Most of the tales did not originate with Boccaccio; some of them were centuries old already in his time, but Boccaccio imbued them all with his distinctive style. The stories run the gamut from tragedy to comedy, from lewd to inspiring, and sometimes all of those at once. They also provide a detailed picture of daily life in fourteenth-century Italy.
The Athenaeum
Author: Athenaeum
Author: Beeton's Science, Art, and Literature
Author: Samuel Orchart BeetonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
Book Description
The Decameron
Author: Giovanni BoccaccioThe Illustrated London News
Author: The academy
Author: An Etymological Dictionary for Reading Boccaccio's Decameron: The fourth day - The seventh day
Author: Osamu FukushimaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italian language
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective
Author: William RobinsPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487506902
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Stories about pranks figure prominently in Boccaccio's Decameron. This book explores Boccaccio's poetics of repetition, accumulation, and contiguity in Day Eight, a day rich in tales of practical jokes.