Decameron Of Giovanni Boccacci

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791041804757

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The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio Pdf

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 : The New York Times
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982170813

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Stories from Quarantine by The New York Times Pdf

"Previously published as The decameron project."

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Italian literature
ISBN : IND:30000011357955

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Tales from the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio Pdf

In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside. They amuse themselves by each telling a story a day for the ten days they are destined to remain there - a hundred stories of love, adventure and surprising twists of fate. Less preoccupied with abstract concepts of morality or religion than earthly values, the tales range from the bawdy Peronella hiding her lover in a tub to Ser Cepperallo, who, despite his unholy effrontery, becomes a Saint. The result is a towering monument of European literature and a masterpiece of imaginative narrative.

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Italian fiction
ISBN : OCLC:37092856

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The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio Pdf

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 979 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547010111

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The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio Pdf

Comprised of 100 novellas told by ten men and women over a ten-day journey fleeing plague-infested Florence, the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio is an allegorical work famous for its bawdy portrayals of everyday life, its searing wit and mockery, and its careful adherence to a framed structure. The word "decameron" is derived from the Greek and means "ten days".

Author : Simone Marchesi,Susanna Barsella
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487540517

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The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective by Simone Marchesi,Susanna Barsella Pdf

The Ninth Day of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron is significant both for numerological and structural reasons. Whether we consider the Decameron as reproducing an itinerary toward the attainment of virtue or following other possible interpretive schematics, Day Nine remains a liminal moment of pause before the inception of the final stories dedicated to the highest civic virtues of liberality and magnificence. This collection is comprised of extensive and rigorous essays by leading experts in the field of Boccaccio studies and medieval literature, shedding new critical light on the Ninth Day. The volume incorporates a multitude of disciplinary perspectives including literary studies, visual arts, political history, and gender studies. Taking a holistic approach, the contributors to the volume trace the dense and multi-layered web of interrelations between the narrative units and the rest of the Decameron. Connections between individual stories are highlighted and interactions between Day Nine and its counterparts in the book are analysed. In doing so, The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective synthesizes existing scholarship but also opens up new horizons for future work.

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Frame-stories
ISBN : 0192836919

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The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio Pdf

This new translation by Guido Waldman captures the exuberance and variety and tone of Boccaccio's masterpiece.

Author : David Lummus
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781487508715

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Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective by David Lummus Pdf

The expert readings in this collection explore the ten stories of Day Six of Boccaccio's Decameron - a day that involves meditations on language, narration, and meaning

Author : Guyda Armstrong
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442668553

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The English Boccaccio by Guyda Armstrong Pdf

The Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio has had a long and colourful history in English translation. This new interdisciplinary study presents the first exploration of the reception of Boccaccio’s writings in English literary culture, tracing his presence from the early fifteenth century to the 1930s. Guyda Armstrong tells this story through a wide-ranging journey through time and space – from the medieval reading communities of Naples and Avignon to the English court of Henry VIII, from the censorship of the Decameron to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, from the world of fine-press printing to the clandestine pornographers of 1920s New York, and much more. Drawing on the disciplines of book history, translation studies, comparative literature, and visual studies, the author focuses on the book as an object, examining how specific copies of manuscripts and printed books were presented to an English readership by a variety of translators. Armstrong is thereby able to reveal how the medieval text in translation is remade and re-authorized for every new generation of readers.

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1434103579

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The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio Pdf

In Medieval Italy, seven young women and three young men flee plague-ridden Florence for the countryside, where, over the course of ten carefree days, each tells ten stories of intrigue and romance-100 tales in all. First published in the 1300s, these lusty tales are still as entertaining and diverting as they were during the Middle Ages. Here noblemen and ladies, peasants and princesses, cavort together in a magnificent collection of timeless tales brimming with life and love. The Decameron is a big book, and most publishers try to pack it into small newsprint pages with tiny, nearly unreadable type. This edition, on the other hand, has been newly designed and printed on large-format, high-quality paper with easy-to-read type, making it a deluxe volume at a still-reasonable price.

Author : Marilyn Migiel
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442625761

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The Ethical Dimension of the 'Decameron' by Marilyn Migiel Pdf

With The Ethical Dimension of the “Decameron” Marilyn Migiel, author of A Rhetoric of the “Decameron” (winner of the MLA’s 2004 Marraro Prize), returns to Giovanni Boccaccio’s masterpiece, this time to focus on the dialogue about ethical choices that the Decameron creates with us and that we, as individuals and as groups, create with the Decameron. Maintaining that we can examine this dialogue to gain insights into our values, our biases and our decision-making processes, Migiel offers a view of the Decameron as sticky and thorny. According to Migiel, the Decameron catches us as we move through it, obligating us to reveal ourselves, inviting us to reflect on how we form our assessments, and calling upon us to be mindful of our responsibility to judge patiently and carefully. Migiel’s focus remains unabashedly on the experience of readers, on the meanings they find in the Decameron, and on the ideological assumptions they have about the way that a literary text such as the Decameron works. She offers that, rather than thinking about the Decameron as “teaching” readers, we should think about it “testing” them. Throughout, Migiel engages in the masterful in-depth rhetorical analyses, delivered in lively and readable prose, that are her trademark. Whether she is examining the Italian of the Decameron, translations of the Italian into English, commentaries by scholars, newspaper articles, or student essays, she asks us always to maintain an ethical engagement with the words of others.

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486149462

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The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio Pdf

A group of escapees from plague-ridden Florence pass the time by telling tales of romance in this landmark of medieval literature. Features 25 of the original 100 stories. J. M. Rigg translation.

Author : Graham Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Documentary television programs
ISBN : 1409196798

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The Holdout by Graham Moore Pdf

'The most gripping and satisfying thriller I've read in more than a decade' Sophie Hannah 'One of the best legal thrillers ... as elegant and gripping as Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent' Daily Mail 'Quite the tour de force! Twelve Angry Men meets Chinatown and creates something of its own' Sarah Pinborough 'This is a tense, emotionally charged, scary-good, stand-out read' Caroline Kepnes ********** MAJOR TV SERIES COMING SOON - FROM THE PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT YOU NETFLIX'S UNBELIEVABLE... One juror changed the verdict. What if she was wrong? 'Ten years ago we made a decision together...' Fifteen-year-old Jessica Silver, heiress to a billion-dollar fortune, vanishes on her way home from school. Her teacher, Bobby Nock, is the prime suspect. It's an open and shut case for the prosecution, and a quick conviction seems all but guaranteed. Until Maya Seale, a young woman on the jury, persuades the rest of the jurors to vote not guilty: a controversial decision that will change all of their lives forever. Ten years later, one of the jurors is found dead, and Maya is the prime suspect. The real killer could be any of the other ten jurors. Is Maya being forced to pay the price for her decision all those years ago? ********** 'Plunge a syringe filled with adrenaline into the heart of Twelve Angry Men and you've got The Holdout: the first legal thriller in thirty years - ever since Presumed Innocent and A Time to Kill electrified readers the world over - to rank alongside those two modern classics.' AJ Finn 'A page-turning legal thriller with a twisty and absolutely riveting plot ... plus a strong and compelling female heroine. You won't be able to put this one down!' Lisa Scottoline 'Clever, well-written and twistier than a can of silly-string. You absolutely need to read The Holdout!' Emma Kavanagh 'Amazing thriller, deserves to be one of the biggest books of 2020' Michelle Davies 'Terrific, twisty and well-structured thriller' Adele Geras

Author : Giovanni Bocaccio
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9791041996612

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The Decameron by Giovanni Bocaccio Pdf

"The Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio is a collection of 100 tales told by a group of young people sheltering in a villa outside Florence during the Black Death. As the plague ravages the city, ten noble men and women escape to the countryside and entertain themselves by telling stories over a period of ten days. Each day, one member of the group is appointed as the "king" or "queen" of the day, and they choose a theme for the stories to be told. The tales cover a wide range of subjects, including love, trickery, wit, and morality, and they often feature characters from various social classes and backgrounds. Boccaccio's work is celebrated for its vivid storytelling, wit, and humor, as well as its frank and often bawdy depiction of human nature. Through the diverse tales told by the characters, "The Decameron" provides a rich tapestry of medieval Italian life, while also offering timeless insights into the complexities of human behavior and relationships.

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Italian literature
ISBN : OCLC:1112837431

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The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio Pdf