The third in the very popular Very Christmas series, this volume brings together the best Italian Christmas stories of all time in an elegant and vibrant collection featuring classic tales and contemporary works. With writing that dates from the Renaissance to the present day, from Boccaccio to Pirandello, as well as Anna Maria Ortese, Natalia Ginzburg and Nobel laureate Grazia Deledda, this choice selection delights and intrigues. These literary gems are filled with ancient churches, trains...
The Decameron – Decamerone, subtitled Prince Galehaut is a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375). The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men sheltering in a secluded villa just outside Florence to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city. Boccaccio probably conceived the Decameron after the epidemic of 1348, and completed it by 1353. The various tales of love...
This carefully crafted ebook: «The Decameron: The Classic Translation of John Payne» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. John Payne's translation of The Decameron was originally published in a private printing for The Villon Society, London in 1886. Comprised of 100 novellas told by ten men and women over a ten day journey fleeing plague-infested Florence, the Decameron is an allegorical work famous for its bawdy portrayals of everyday life, its...
This carefully crafted ebook: «The Decameron: The Classic Translation of John Payne» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. John Payne's translation of The Decameron was originally published in a private printing for The Villon Society, London in 1886. Comprised of 100 novellas told by ten men and women over a ten day journey fleeing plague-infested Florence, the Decameron is an allegorical work famous for its bawdy portrayals of everyday life, its...
This carefully crafted ebook: «The Most Pleasant and Delectable Questions of Love (The Unabridged Original English Translation)» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This is a translation of Boccaccio`s «Il libro di Difinizioni», first translated into English by «H.G.» (probably Henry Grantham) in London, 1566. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend, student, and correspondent of Petrarch, an important...
Збірка новел «Декамерон» — це всесвітньо відомий твір Джованні Боккаччо (1313—1375), італійського письменника ХІV століття. У нас він традиційно вважається видатним письменником Відродження, але його творчість настільки тісно пов’язана з Середньовіччям і його культурою, що справедливіше назвати її явищем передренесансним і передгуманістичним. У своєму «Декамероні» він створив новелу як літературний жанр і надав йому художньої довершеності. Хоч Боккаччо брав у «Декамероні» сюжети із різних...
