Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio può essere considerato insieme con Dante e Petrarca, il più importante autore del XIV secolo sia in Italia che in tutta Europa. Boccaccio si distingue però dagli altri due per il suo stile centrato su tematiche terrene e per il suo relativo disinteresse per le problematiche morali, religiose, teologiche e politiche. Il Decameron è la più importante opera di questo scrittore: si tratta di una raccolta di 100 novelle collegate...

The title of the book is translated as “ten-day period”. Exactly for ten days Boccaccio's heroes, ten young men and girls, who left their native city because of the epidemics of plague, tell each other anecdotal, magic, fascinating, didactic, tragic and erotic stories.

Written in the middle of the 14th century as the Bubonic Plague decimated the population of Europe, "The Decameron" is a satirical and allegorical collection of stories by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio. Constructed as a series of "frame stories," or stories within a story, the narrative follows seven young women and three young men who take refuge in a secluded villa outside Florence in order to escape the Black Death. During ten evenings of their...

Questo eBook offre il testo integrale italiano del "Decameron" di Giovanni Boccaccio dall'edizione bestseller di 'The raccolte opere di Giovanni Boccaccio'. Dopo aver stabilito il loro nome come il principale editore di letteratura classica e arte, Delphi classici produrre pubblicazioni che sono realizzate individualmente con formattazione superiore, mentre l'introduzione di molti testi rari per la prima volta in stampa digitale. L'edizione di

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The third in the very popular Very Christmas series, this volume brings together the best Italian Christmas stories of all time in a 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 Grazia Deledda, these literary gems are filled with ancient churches, trains whistling through the countryside,...

The most enduring work by the Renaissance humanist Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron is a collection of one hundred stories about ten young noblemen and noblewomen who escape the plague by moving to a country villa outside the Italian city of Florence. Highly influential, numerous writers have borrowed from Boccaccio's tales, including Edgar Allen Poe, John Keats, and George Eliot. In "The Stone of Invisibility," the nobleman Calandrino, as well...

A translation of the fourteenth-century tales recounted by young citizens of Florence who have fled the city to escape the plague.

A new translation of the fourteenth-century tales recounted by young citizens of Florence who have fled the city to escape the plague.

Presents ten stories, read in English and Italian, from Boccaccio's fourteenth-century novel "Il Decameron" which is comprised of tales told by young people who have retreated to the countryside to escape the plague.