The English Boccaccio

Author : Guyda Armstrong
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:55182424

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The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio Pdf

Author : Professor Giovanni Boccaccio,John Payne
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1294355805

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The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio (Il Boccaccio) by Professor Giovanni Boccaccio,John Payne Pdf

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Author : John Payne,Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 129364613X

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The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne,Giovanni Boccaccio Pdf

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547783510

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The Decameron: The Original English Translation by John Florio by Giovanni Boccaccio Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Decameron: The Classic Translation of John Payne" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. John Payne's translation of The Decameron was originally published in a private printing for The Villon Society, London in 1886. Comprised of 100 novellas told by ten men and women over a ten day journey fleeing plague-infested Florence, the Decameron 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". Boccaccio drew on many influences in writing the Decameron, and many writers, including Martin Luther, Chaucer, and Keats, later drew inspiration from the book. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) was an Italian writer and humanist, one of the founders of the Renaissance. He studied business but abandoned it eventually to pursue his literary interests. In 1350 Boccaccio met Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) (1304-1374), one the most important figures in the beginnings of the Renaissance and Humanism.

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio,John Payne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:3028800

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The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio (Il Boccaccio) by Giovanni Boccaccio,John Payne Pdf

Author : Tobias Foster Gittes
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802092045

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Boccaccio's Naked Muse by Tobias Foster Gittes Pdf

Venturing outside the Decameron to the Latin works, and outside the usual textual and intertextual readings of Boccaccio to more broadly cultural and anthropological material, Boccaccio's Naked Muse offers fresh insights on this hugely significant literary figure.

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1599103729

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The Downfall of the Famous by Giovanni Boccaccio Pdf

"Originally published 1965 by Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., Inc." -- Verso title page.

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 129060438X

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The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio Pdf

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Author : John Payne,Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0342854720

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The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio (Il Boccaccio) by John Payne,Giovanni Boccaccio Pdf

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Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674011309

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Famous Women by Giovanni Boccaccio Pdf

Giovanni Boccaccio devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is this text, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted to women.

Author : Florence Nightingale Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015017635726

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Boccaccio and His Imitators in German, English, French, Spanish and Italian Literature by Florence Nightingale Jones Pdf

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio,Léopold Flameng,John Payne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 18??
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:16018439

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Stories of Boccaccio (The Decameron) Tr. from the Italian Into English, with Original Etchings by Leopold Flameng by Giovanni Boccaccio,Léopold Flameng,John Payne Pdf

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio,John Payne
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1376674912

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The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio (Il Boccaccio) by Giovanni Boccaccio,John Payne Pdf

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