Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plague
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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The Novels and Tales of the Renowned John Boccacio
Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher:
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Category : Plague
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plague
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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The Novels and Tales of the Renowned John Boccacio ... The Fifth Edition, Much Corrected and Amended
Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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The Decameron
Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
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.
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
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.
Il Filocolo
Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher: Scholarly Title
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Publisher: Scholarly Title
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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The English Boccaccio
Author: Guyda Armstrong
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442668555
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442668555
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
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.
A List of English Tales and Prose Romances Printed Before 1740
Author: Arundell James Kennedy Esdaile
Publisher: London : Blades, East & Blades
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher: London : Blades, East & Blades
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of John Jay Paul, Watertown, Florida
Author: John Jay Paul
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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The American Bibliopolist
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates
Author: Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library
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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Publisher:
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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Library. Library Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1144
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1144
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