Three Prose Writers Of The Italian Renaissance: Edited With An Introduction And Notes (Classic Reprint) (Italian Edition) - Softcover
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Explore the birth of modern Italian prose through the giants of the Renaissance, from Petrarch and Boccaccio to Castiglione and Machiavelli.
This edition gathers a vivid account of how Renaissance writers helped shape literature, history, and courtly life. It highlights how prose evolved to express new ideas about culture, power, and human experience, with introductions and notes that illuminate key figures and works.
The book situates the era’s prose within its social and intellectual games—from the lively salons of courts to the serious art of crafting memorable tales. Readers will see how storytelling, statecraft, and moral discussion intertwined to define a period of great experimentation and achievement.
- Learn how Boccaccio’s tales influenced later writers across Europe
- See what defined the Renaissance courtier as described in notable treatises
- Understand the shift from medieval to modern ways of writing and thinking
- Discover the connections between literature, history, and culture in this era
Ideal for readers of literary history and those curious about how Renaissance prose shaped later centuries.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. The Decameron, authored by fourteenth-century Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio, is a collection of 100 tales told by a group of 10 storytellers who isolate themselves after the outbreak of the Black Death. It establishes the genre of the frame story and includes themes of human frailty, love, death, and good fortune. The tales vary in genre from tragic to comic, and feature characters from all walks of life, from aristocrats to peasants. During the plague, young people in Florence find themsleves sequestered together and tell one another stories to while away the days. The book does not hold back from depicting the harsh realities of medieval life while still drawing out themes of the human condition that remain relevant to this day. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Seller Inventory # 9781334433832_0
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