Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, John Payne, Tom Griffith, Cormac Ó Cuilleánain
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Description Boccaccio's Decameron recasts the storytelling heritage of the ancient and medieval worlds into perennial forms that inspired writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare down to our own day.
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A new version of John Payne's Victorian translation, with an Introduction by Cormac O Cuilleanain 1348. The Black Death is sweeping through Europe. In Florence, plague has carried off one hundred thousand people. In their Tuscan villas, seven young women and three young men tell tales to recreate the world they have lost, weaving a rich tapestry of comedy, tragedy, ribaldry and farce. Boccaccio's Decameron recasts the storytelling heritage of the ancient and medieval worlds into perennial forms that inspired writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare down to our own day. Boccaccio makes the incredible believable, with detail so sharp we can look straight into the lives of people who lived six hundred years ago. His 'Decameron' hovers between the fading glories of an aristocratic past - the Crusades, the Angevins, the courts of France, the legendary East - and the colourful squalor of contemporary life, where wives deceive husbands, friars and monks pursue fleshly ends, and natural instincts fight for satisfaction. Here are love and jealousy, passion and pride - and a shrewd calculation of profit and loss which heralds the rise of a dynamic merchant class. These stories show us early capitalism during a moment of crisis and revelation. AUTHOR: Giovanni Boccaccio (1313?-1375) is heralded as one of Europe's foremost storytellers. Boccaccio moved to Naples with his family in 1326, when his father was appointed to head the Neapolitan branch of his bank. His father secured young Giovanni an apprenticeship at the bank, but it was not a career that appealed to him, and he eventually persuaded his father to let him study law at the Studium in the city. He studied canon law for six years, before leaving to pursue his interests in scientific and literary studies. During his time studying law, Boccaccio was introduced by his father to the Neapolitan nobility, and he quickly fell in love with Maria d'Acquino, a married daughter of King Robert of Naples. Maria was the inspiration for many of Boccaccio's earlier works. Boccaccio returned to Florence in 1341, having fled Naples due to tensions between the Angevin King and Florence. Boccaccio had not wanted to return to Florence, but continued to work while he was there, producing Comedia delle ninfe fliorentine (also known as Ameto) in 1341, Amorosa visione in 1342 and Fiammetta in 1343. In 1348, Florence was ravaged by the Black Death, which killed 75% of the city's population. This period of time is represented in one of Boccaccio's best known works, 'Decameron', which Boccaccio began working on in 1349.
Author Biography
Although Giovanni Boccaccio was born in France and raised and educated in Naples, where he wrote his first works under the patronage of the French Angevin ruler, Boccaccio always considered himself a Tuscan, like Petrarch and Dante. After Boccaccop returned to Florence in 1340, he witnessed the outbreak of the great plague, or Black Death, in 1348. This provided the setting for his most famous work, the vernacular prose masterpiece Il Decamerone (Decameron) (1353). This collection of 100 short stories, told by 10 Florentines who leave plague-infected Florence for the neighboring hill town of F
Details ISBN 184022133X ISBN-13 9781840221336 Title Decameron Author Giovanni Boccaccio, John Payne, Tom Griffith, Cormac Ó Cuilleánain Format Paperback Year 2004 Pages 848 Publisher Wordsworth Editions Ltd GE_Item_ID:3040900; About Us
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