The Decameron

  • The Decameron
    The Decameron
    By Giovanni Boccaccio, Wayne A. Rebhorn

    Revised for the 700th anniversary of the author's birth, this richly descriptive tale of medieval Italian life details how ten young Florentines retreat to the countryside to escape the plague-infested city and entertain themselves by ...

  • The Decameron: The Original English Translation by John Florio
    The Decameron: The Original English Translation by John Florio
    By Giovanni Boccaccio

    The word "decameron" is derived from the Greek and means "ten days". Boccaccio drew on many influences in writing the Decameron, and many writers, including Martin Luther, Chaucer, and Keats, later drew inspiration from the book.

  • The Decameron
    The Decameron
    By Giovanni Boccaccio

    Translated with an Introduction and Notes by G. H. McWilliam.

  • The Decameron
    The Decameron
    By Giovanni Boccaccio

    Winner of the 2014 PEN USA Literary Award for Translation This Norton Critical Edition includes: - Fifty-five judiciously chosen stories from Wayne A. Rebhorn's translation of The Decameron.

  • The Decameron: Selected Tales/Decameron: Novelle Scelte: A Dual-Language Book
    The Decameron: Selected Tales/Decameron: Novelle Scelte: A Dual-Language Book
    By Giovanni Boccaccio, Stanley Appelbaum

    A costui, lasciandolo all'albergo, aveva frate Cipolla comandato che ben guardasse che alcuna persona non toccasse le cose sue, e spezialmente le sue bisacce, per ciò che in quelle erano le cose sacre; ma Guccio Imbratta, ...

  • The Decameron: Selected Tales
    The Decameron: Selected Tales
    By Giovanni Boccaccio, Robert Blaisdell

    (0-486-44621-2) WHEN IWAS A SLAVE, Edited by Norman R. Yetman. (0-486-42070-1) THE IMITATION OF CHRIST, Thomas à Kempis. Translated by Aloysius Croft and Harold Bolton. (0-486-43185-1) PLAYS ANTIGONE, Sophocles.

  • The Decameron: Prince Galehaut. a Masterpiece of Classical Early Italian Prose.
    The Decameron: Prince Galehaut. a Masterpiece of Classical Early Italian Prose.
    By Giovanni Boccaccio, James Zimmerhoff

    Each day also includes a short preface and conclusion to continue the frame of the tales by explaining other daily activities besides story-telling. These frame story interludes frequently incorporate transcriptions of Italian folk songs.

  • The Decameron
    The Decameron
    By Giovanni Boccaccio

    Translated with an introduction by G.H. McWilliam 'McWilliam's finest work, his translation of Boccaccio's Decameron remains one of the most successful and lauded books in the series' The Times

  • The Decameron
    The Decameron
    By Giovanni Boccaccio

    This translation seeks to capture the exuberance, variety and tone of Boccaccio's masterpiece.

  • The Decameron: Selected Tales
    The Decameron: Selected Tales
    By Giovanni Boccaccio

    A group of escapees from plague-ridden Florence pass the time by telling tales of romance in this landmark of medieval literature. Features 25 of the original 100 stories. J. M. Rigg translation.

  • The Decameron
    The Decameron
    By Giovanni Boccaccio

    Set against the backdrop of the fourteenth-century Black Death, an anthology of one hundred interlinked tales presents a rich variety of colorful works recounted by the citizens of Florence--nobles, knights, abbots, nuns, doctors, ...

  • The Decameron
    The Decameron
    By Giovanni Boccaccio

    This volume presents fifty-five stories, newly translated, of the hundred novelle that comprise Boccaccio’s masterpiece.

  • The Decameron
    The Decameron
    By Giovanni Boccaccio

    The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death. The stories are told in a country villa outside the city...

  • The Decameron
    The Decameron
    By Giovanni Boccaccio

    Reproduction of the original: The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

  • The Decameron: The Classic Translation of John Payne
    The Decameron: The Classic Translation of John Payne
    By Giovanni Boccaccio

    The word "decameron" is derived from the Greek and means "ten days". Boccaccio drew on many influences in writing the Decameron, and many writers, including Martin Luther, Chaucer, and Keats, later drew inspiration from the book.

  • The Decameron
    The Decameron
    By Giovanni Boccaccio

    In the early summer of the year 1348, as a terrible plague ravages the city, ten charming young Florentines take refuge in country villas to tell each other stories -...

  • The Decameron: VOL 1: a Collection of Novellas by the 14th-century Italian Author Giovanni Boccaccio. The Book is Structured as...
    The Decameron: VOL 1: a Collection of Novellas by the 14th-century Italian Author Giovanni Boccaccio. The Book is Structured as...
    By Boccaccio Giovanni

    Boccaccio probably conceived of The Decameron after the epidemic of 1348, and completed it by 1353. The various tales of love in The Decameron range from the erotic to the tragic.

  • The Decameron
    The Decameron
    By Giovanni Boccaccio

    The Decameron is a joyously comic book that has earned its place in world literature not just because it makes us laugh, but more importantly because it shows us how essential laughter is to the human condition.Published on the 700th ...

  • The Decameron: Selected Tales
    The Decameron: Selected Tales
    By Giovanni Boccaccio

    A unique selection of contextual materials concludes the volume. This edition presents 33 of the 100 tales, with at least two from each of the ten days of storytelling.

  • The Decameron
    The Decameron
    By Giovanni Boccaccio

    In this collection of tales, Boccaccio has presented an assortment of emotions and experiences. The work is a testament to the creative abilities of its author.