A complete edition of the hilarious, bawdy, irreverent masterpiece of medieval Italy--and an inspiration for the Netflix dark comedy The Decameron--in an acclaimed translation
In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines...
The year is 1348. The Black Death has begun to ravage Europe. Ten young Florentines--seven women and three men--escape the plague-infested city and retreat to the countryside around Fiesole. At their leisure in this isolated and bucolic setting, they spend ten days telling each...
Winner of the 2014 PEN USA Literary Award for Translation
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
- Fifty-five judiciously chosen stories from Wayne A. Rebhorn's translation of The Decameron.
- Introductory materials and explanatory footnotes by Wayne A. Rebhorn,...
The Decameron (c.1351) was written in the wake of the Black Death, a shattering epidemic which had shaken Florence's confident entrepreneurial society to its core. In a country villa outside the city, ten young noble men and women who have escaped the plague decide to...
INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES - In the summer of 1348, with the plague ravaging Florence, ten young men and women take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselves with tales of love, death, and corruption, featuring a host of characters, from lascivious...
INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES - In the summer of 1348, with the plague ravaging Florence, ten young men and women take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselves with tales of love, death, and corruption, featuring a host of characters, from lascivious...
The Decameron is a collection of novellas containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men sheltering in a secluded villa just outside Florence to escape the Black Death. To pass the evenings, each member of the party tells a story each night,...
El Decamer n, es un libro constituido por cien cuentos, algunos de ellos novelas cortas, escritos por Giovanni Boccaccio entre 1351 y 1353. Desarrolla tres temas principales: el amor, la inteligencia humana y la fortuna. Los diversos cuentos de amor en el Decamer n van de lo...
The year is 1348. The Black Death has begun to ravage Europe. Ten young Florentines--seven women and three men--escape the plague-infested city and retreat to the countryside around Fiesole. At their leisure in this isolated and bucolic setting, they spend ten days telling each...
The stories have been chosen to represent the most notable of the author's themes and the most characteristic and influential examples of his narrative technique. All are in new translations by Mark Musa and Peter Bondanella which successfully capture Boccaccio's variations in...
The Decameron, is a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375).The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men sheltering in a secluded villa just outside Florence...