The Decameron / Giovanni Boccaccio ; translated by Guido Waldman ; edited with an introduction and notes by Jonathan Usher.

By:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375 [author]

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008, c1993.Description: xxxix, 698 pages ; 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780199540419

Uniform titles:

Decamerone. English

Subject(s):

Italian literature

DDC classification:

853.1

Summary: "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. One of Chaucer's most fruitful sources for the Canterbury Tales, Bocccaccio's work artfully combines the essential ingredients of narrative: fate and desire, crises and quick-thinking. This modern translation by Guido Waldman captures the exuberance and variety of tone of Boccaccio's masterpiece." -- Back cover.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book - 7-day loan	CYA Library Main Collection	853.1 BOC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00000011386

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Originally published: 1993.

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"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. One of Chaucer's most fruitful sources for the Canterbury Tales, Bocccaccio's work artfully combines the essential ingredients of narrative: fate and desire, crises and quick-thinking.
This modern translation by Guido Waldman captures the exuberance and variety of tone of Boccaccio's masterpiece." -- Back cover.