Giovanni Boccaccio - Böcker

I en villa på landsbygden utanför Florens har tio ungdomar barrikaderat sig för att fly undan pesten som härjar i staden. De fördriver sin tid med mat, vin och sång, och varje eftermiddag berättar var och en av dem en historia. Fram växer en väv a...

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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, seve...

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Berättelsemosaiken inleds med en skakande skildring av pestens härjningar i Florens 1348. Tio ungdomar - sju kvinnor och tre män - flyr från pestens fasor ut på landet, där de njuter av naturens skönhet, utsökta måltider, dans och sång. De underhå...

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Decamerone är den italienska prosans första mästerverk och har i sin genre aldrig överträffats på något språk. Berättelsemosaiken inleds med en skakande skildring av pestens härjningar i Florens 1348. Tio ungdomar - sju kvinnor och tre män - flyr ...

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Giovanni Boccaccio [1313 -1375] var en italiensk författare och poet. Hans mest kända verk är novellsamlingen Decamerone som utspelar sig under pestutbrottet i Italien under 1300-talet. Samlingen är uppdelad i tio delar och innehåller 100 berättel...

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In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside... Taken from the Greek, meaning 'ten-day event', Boccaccio's Decameron sees his characters amuse themselves by each ...

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Andreuccio ist ein junger Pferdehändler und reist eines Tages nach Neapel um Pferde zu kaufen. Sein Säckchen voller Geld zieht jedoch viele neugierige Blicke auf sich und so stürzt er von einem Abenteuer ins nächste.

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Bawdy and moving, hilarious and reflective - these stories offer the very best of Boccaccio's Decameron in a brilliant, playful new translation. This hugely enjoyable volume collects the best stories of Boccaccio's masterwork in a fresh,...

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Four hilarious and provocative stories from Boccaccio's Decameron, featuring cuckolded husbands, cross-dressing wives and very bad priests.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the...

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In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside...Taken from the Greek, meaning 'ten-day event', Boccaccio's Decameron sees his characters amuse themselves by each telling a story ...

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Bawdy and moving, hilarious and reflective - these stories offer the very best of Boccaccio's Decameron in a brilliant, playful new translation.This hugely enjoyable volume collects the best stories of Boccaccio's masterwork in a fresh, accessible...

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Ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside from the Black Death and tell stories to pass the time. From the unfaithful wife who unwittingly eats her lover s heart to the sly peasant plotting to seduce a whole nunnery, these are tales of ...

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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...

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A milestone in feminist literature, this marvelous European romance, narrated by a woman, is considered the first psychological novel in a modern language and a precursor of stream-of-consciousness fiction. Written by Giovanni Boccaccio between 13...

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In the summer of 1348, with the plague ravaging Florence, ten young men and women take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselves with tales of love, death, and corruption, featuring a host of characters, from lascivious clergymen ...

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Originally published in 1986, this translated version of Giovanni Boccaccio's Il Filostrato is of particular interest as the principal source for Chaucer's great work, the Troilus. This edition includes the original Italian alongside the...

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Originally published in 1986, this translated version of Giovanni Boccaccio's Il Filostrato is of particular interest as the principal source for Chaucer's great work, the Troilus. This edition includes the original Italian alongside the...

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Originally published in 1985, this book contains a full translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's L'Ameto, alongside textual notes.Giovanni Boccaccio is famous for his great collection of short stories, the Decameron, but his other literary ac...

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Originally published in 1985, this book contains a full translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's L'Ameto, alongside textual notes.Giovanni Boccaccio is famous for his great collection of short stories, the Decameron, but his other literary ac...

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Originally translated and published in 1987, this volume contains a full text and translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's Eclogues, alongside textual and historical notes including an explanation of Boccaccio's life, his artistic achievement...

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Originally translated and published in 1987, this volume contains a full text and translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's Eclogues, alongside textual and historical notes including an explanation of Boccaccio's life, his artistic achievement...

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Published in 1990: This book tells the life story of Dante, the poet and his work.

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Published in 1990: This book tells the life story of Dante, the poet and his work.

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The year is 1348. The Black Death has begun to ravage Europe. Ten young Florentines-seven women and three men-escape the plague-infested city and retreat to the countryside around Fiesole. At their leisure in this isolated and bucolic setting, the...

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The stories have been chosen to represent the most notable of the author's themes and the most characteristic and influential examples of his narrative technique. All are in new translations by Mark Musa and Peter Bondanella which successfully cap...

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Ten young Florentines flee the Black Death of 1348 by escaping to a country villa overlooking the city. There they spend ten days telling each other one hundred stories. Their stories run the gamut of medieval genresromance, tragedy, comedy and fa...

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The Decameron has had numerous English translations, most of them bowdlerized or reliant on corrupt texts. The challenge is to move gracefully between the widely varying idioms employed for different tales and Rebhorn is notably successful in hand...

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This Norton Critical Edition includes: fifty-five judiciously chosen stories from Wayne A. Rebhorns translation of The Decameron; introductory materials, explanatory footnotes and three maps; biographical works by Filippo Villani and Ludovico Dolc...

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Published in 1990: This book tells the life story of Dante, the poet and his work.

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Published in 1990: This book tells the life story of Dante, the poet and his work.

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