The Decameron
Boccaccio, Giovanni
A seminal work of European literature that has inspired writers from
Chaucer to Shakespeare, the Penguin Classics edition of Giovanni
Boccaccio’s The Decameron is translated with an introduction by G.H.
McWilliam. 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 a day, for
the ten days of their confinement - a hundred stories of love and
adventure, life and death, and surprising twists of fate. Less
preoccupied with abstract concepts of morality or religion than earthly
values, the tales range from the bawdy Peronella, hiding her lover in a
tub, to Ser Cepperallo, who, despite his unholy effrontery, becomes a
Saint. The result is a towering monument of European literature and a
masterpiece of imaginative narrative.
This is the second edition
of G.H. McWilliam’s acclaimed translation of the Decameron. In his
introduction McWilliam illuminates the worlds of Boccaccio and of his
storytellers, showing Boccaccio as a master of vivid and exciting prose
fiction.
Boccaccio (1313-75) was an Italian writer of both
verse and prose. He wrote The Decameron over a period of ten years, and
is also the author of Teseide and Filostrato. If you enjoyed The
Decameron, you might like Dante’s Inferno, also available in Penguin
Classics.
’McWilliam’s finest work, his translation of
Boccaccio’s Decameron remains one of the most successful and lauded
books in the series’The Times
Kustantaja: UKBooks
Sidosasu: Pehmeäkantinen
ean: 9780140449303
Ilmestymisvuosi: 2003
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