The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio - Softcover

Boccaccio, Giovanni

Softcover

ISBN 10: 154728000X ISBN 13: 9781547280001

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

As often, most gracious ladies, as, taking thought in myself, I mind me how very pitiful you are all by nature, so often do I recognize that this present work will, to your thinking, have a grievous and a weariful beginning, inasmuch as the dolorous remembrance of the late pestiferous mortality, which it beareth on its forefront, is universally irksome to all who saw or otherwise knew it. But I would not therefore have this affright you from reading further, as if in the reading you were still to fare among sighs and tears.

About this title

About the Author:

Guido Waldman, Senior Editor, Collins Harvill. Jonathan Usher, Lecturer in the Department of Italian, University of Edinburgh.

Review:

'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 with the main text, this introduction will prove very useful both to the general reader and to the student unable to read in the Italian.' Christopher C. Stevens. Italian Studies, XLIX, 1994

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 154728000X
• ISBN 13: 9781547280001
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256