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Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
A new version of John Payne's Victorian translation, with an Introduction by Cormac O Cuilleanain. 1348. 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 ...Show more
Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio; J. G. Nichols (Introduction by, Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron was the first great masterpiece of European storytelling; this brilliant new translation by J. G. Nichols faithfully captures its timeless vitality in readable and natural English. In the summer of 1348, with the plague ravaging Florence, ten young men and women take refug ...Show more
Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Category: Classic | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
In the summer of 1348, the plague ravages Florence, and ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselves with tales of love, death and corruption, featuring a host of colourful characters, from lascivious clergymen and mad kings to devious lovers and false miracle-ma ...Show more
Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Category: Classic Fiction
"The Decameron" (subtitle: "Prencipe Galeotto") is a collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353. It is a medieval allegorical work best known for its bawdy tales of love, appearing in all its possibilities from the erotic to the tragic. S ...Show more
Famous Women by Giovanni Boccaccio; Virginia Brown (Edited and Translated by)
Category: History | Series: The\I Tatti Renaissance Library
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 t ...Show more
Famous Women by Giovanni Boccaccio; Virginia Brown
Category: Classics | Series: The\I Tatti Renaissance Library
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 t ...Show more
Genealogy of the Pagan Gods by Jon (EDT) Giovanni; Solomon Boccaccio
Category: History | Series: I Tatti Renaissance Library
Genealogy of the Pagan Gods by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) is an ambitious work of humanistic scholarship whose goal is to plunder ancient and medieval literary sources so as to create a massive synthesis of Greek and Roman mythology. The work also contains a famous defense of the value of studying a ...Show more
Genealogy of the Pagan Gods : Books I-V by Jon (EDT) Giovanni; Solomon Boccaccio
Category: Classics | Series: I Tatti Renaissance Library
Life of Dante by Giovanni Boccaccio; Philip Wicksteed (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oneworld Classics Ser.
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Mrs Rosie and the Priest: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #1 by Giovanni Boccaccio
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
Bawdy tales of pimps, cuckolds, lovers and clever women from the fourteenth-century Florentine masterpieceThe Decameron.
THE DECAMERON by BOCCACCIO GIOVANNI
Category: Fiction
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 - a hundred stories of love, adventure and surprising twists of fortune which later inspired Chaucer, Keats and Shakespeare. While Dante is ...Show more