The decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio ; Translated and with an Introduction by Wayne A. Rebhorn
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The decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio ; Translated and with an Introduction by Wayne A. Rebhorn
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The decameron
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Giovanni Boccaccio ; Translated and with an Introduction by Wayne A. Rebhorn
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The year is 1348. The Black Death has begun to ravage Europe. Ten young Florentines?seven women and three men?escape the plague-infested city and retreat to the countryside around Fiesole. At their leisure in this isolated and bucolic setting, they spend ten days telling each other stories?tales of romance, tragedy, comedy, and farce?one hundred in all. The result, called by one critic "the greatest short story collection of all time" (Leonard Barkan, Princeton University) is a rich and entertaining celebration of the medley of medieval life. Published on the 700th anniversary of Boccaccio?s birth, Wayne A. Rebhorn's new translation of The Decameron introduces a generation of readers to this "rich late-medieval feast" in a "lively, contemporary, American-inflected English" (Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University) even as it retains the distinctly medieval flavor of Boccaccio's rhetorically expressive prose
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