Author: Robert Alistair Bartley Gordon Hastings
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719012815
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Author: R. Hastings
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature and morals
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 177658855X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 868

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Inspired by the Black Plague that devastated Europe in the mid-1300s, Boccaccio's collection of tales is an enormously influential literary masterpiece with a sly humor and irreverence that will appeal to modern readers. In the hopes of avoiding the plague, a group of ten wealthy young men and women decamp to a country villa on the outskirts of Florence. Once there, they decide to amuse themselves with a storytelling competition of sorts, with each attendee offering one tale each day for a period of ten days. The stories are by turns ribald, tragic and everything in between.

Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1040

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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.

Author: Leonard Michael Koff
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838638002
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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That resistance, informed by a model of literary influence grounded on the idea of interruption, would keep the Canterbury Tales away from the Decameron, though not the rest of Chaucer from other works by Boccaccio. In the end, of course, that resistance tells us more about Chaucer's reception since the fifteenth century than about Chaucer himself or his sources."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: M. Grudin
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137056843
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Boccaccio's Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance demonstrates that Boccaccio's puzzling masterpiece takes on organic consistency when viewed as an early modern adaptation of a pre-Christian, humanistic vision.

Author: Guyda Armstrong
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107014352
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 299

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A major re-evaluation of Boccaccio's status as literary innovator and cultural mediator equal to that of Petrarch and Dante.

Author: The New York Times
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982170816
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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"Previously published as The decameron project."

Author: Aldo D. Scaglione
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Love in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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'Chiefly an essay in the cultural context of the Decameron.'

Author: Pope Pius II
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789062039999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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