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The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio
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Description for The Decameron
Paperback. Translator(s): Waldman, Guido. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; 3H; DNF; DSBB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 36. Weight in Grams: 514.
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 tell each other stories. Boccaccio's skill as a dramatist is masterfully displayed in this virtuoso performance of one hundred tales, vivid portraits of people from all stations in life, with plots which revel in a bewildering variety of human reactions. Themes are playfully restated from one story to another within an elegant and refined framework. ... Read more
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 tell each other stories. Boccaccio's skill as a dramatist is masterfully displayed in this virtuoso performance of one hundred tales, vivid portraits of people from all stations in life, with plots which revel in a bewildering variety of human reactions. Themes are playfully restated from one story to another within an elegant and refined framework. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
752
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
752
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199540419
SKU
V9780199540419
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Reviews for The Decameron
'This new translation of The Decameron is especially valuable for the manner in which it accurately imitates the divergent tones and structures of Boccaccio's prose. Boccaccio's art is an exercise in brinkmanship which leads characters and readers alike into a turmoil of moral and social disorder only to retrieve them within his formal literary structure at the end. In common ... Read more