Giovanni Boccaccio

"Was treiben wohl zehn jugendliche Adlige, die um 1350 vor der Pest in ein Landhaus bei Florenz fliehen? In Giovanni Boccaccios Decameron erz hlen sie sich zehn mal zehn Geschichten..." Redaktion Gr ls-Verlag (Edition Werke der Weltliteratur)

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Dzhovanni Bokkachcho (1313-1375), odin iz vidnejshikh italjanskikh literatorov epokhi Vozrozhdenija, sozdal povest "Fjammetta" v 1343 godu. Konechno, proizvedenie neset na sebe otpechatok tekh vremen, poetomu sejchas perezhivanija glavnoj geroini mogut pokazatsja nemnogo naivnymi, no sama tema proizvedenija - ljubov - budet aktualna vsegda. Issledovateli predpolagajut, chto Fjammetta - psevdonim, pod kotorym Bokkachcho skryvaet imja svoej vozljublennoj. Psevdonim prisutstvuet vo mnogikh proizvedenijakh avtora, v tom chisle v znamenitom "Dekamerone", otryvki iz kotorogo, tematicheski pereklikajuschiesja s "Fjammettoj", takzhe predstavleny v dannom izdanii. Perevodchik: Kuzmin M. A., Veselovskij A. N.

Zu Beginn der 1350er Jahre verfasste Giovanni Boccaccio sein Meisterwerk, das Dekamerone. Zehn Personen, Frauen und M nner, haben sich in ein Haus nahe Florenz gefl chtet und versuchen sich zu unterhalten, so gut es eben geht angesichts der in der Umgebung w tenden Pest. F r jeden Tag bestimmen sie einen K nig, der ein Thema vorgibt. Zu diesem Thema muss sich dann jede und jeder eine Geschichte ausdenken, die den Anderen vorzutragen ist. Anschlie end kehren die Zehn nach Florenz zur ck.

While the plague ravishes major cities, a group of Italian men and women seek shelter at a countryside estate telling stories to pass the time. Giovanni Boccaccio’s imaginative writing style elevates the multilayered novellas ranging from romance to satire. Seven young women and three men have isolated themselves in a villa hoping to avoid the looming disease that’s consumed their nation. Every day, as a form of entertainment, each person tells a story to the group. It must fit a specific theme, keeping the concept fresh and inspired. The storytelling consists of romance and humor as well as death and deception. It’s a vibrant display of the author’s skill as he produces 100 captivating tales over the course of 10 days. The Decameron is a timely interpretation of isolation in the midst of a global pandemic. It starts quaint but builds into a massive narrative that spans genres and themes. With surprising twists and turns, the book is an engaging text that will keep readers guessing. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Decameron is both modern and readable.

While the plague ravishes major cities, a group of Italian men and women seek shelter at a countryside estate telling stories to pass the time. Giovanni Boccaccio’s imaginative writing style elevates the multilayered novellas ranging from romance to satire. Seven young women and three men have isolated themselves in a villa hoping to avoid the looming disease that’s consumed their nation. Every day, as a form of entertainment, each person tells a story to the group. It must fit a specific theme, keeping the concept fresh and inspired. The storytelling consists of romance and humor as well as death and deception. It’s a vibrant display of the author’s skill as he produces 100 captivating tales over the course of 10 days. The Decameron is a timely interpretation of isolation in the midst of a global pandemic. It starts quaint but builds into a massive narrative that spans genres and themes. With surprising twists and turns, the book is an engaging text that will keep readers guessing. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Decameron is both modern and readable.

“The Decameron has had numerous English translations, most of them bowdlerized or reliant on corrupt texts. The challenge is to move gracefully between the widely varying idioms employed for different tales and Rebhorn is notably successful in handling this, avoiding both an excess of slack colloquialism and the pish-tush-forsooth faux-antique of earlier renderings. The achievement genuinely honors its original.”—JONATHAN KEATES, The Telegraph

Originally published in 1986, this translated version of Giovanni Boccaccio's Il Filostrato is of particular interest as the principal source for Chaucer's great work, the Troilus. This edition includes the original Italian alongside the translation, so that even the English reader with no knowledge of Italian will be able to make out a good deal of the original assisted by a close translation.

Originally published in 1985, this book contains a full translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's L'Ameto, alongside textual notes. Giovanni Boccaccio is famous for his great collection of short stories, the Decameron, but his other literary accomplishments are generally less well-known. Yet he helped revive the Latin eclogue and epistle and fostered the study of Greek; he made the major Renaissance compilation of classical myths, established the pastoral romance, and began formal Dante criticism. Among his more minor works belongs the Ameto, the first moden pastoral romance, translated here.

Published in 1990: This book tells the life story of Dante, the poet and his work.

The Decameron (or Decamerone), subtitled Prince Galehaut (Old Italian: Prencipe Galeotto) and sometimes nicknamed l'Umana commedia ("the Human comedy"), 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 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. Tales of wit, practical jokes, and life lessons contribute to the mosaic. In addition to its literary value and widespread influence (for example on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales), it provides a document of life at the time. Written in the vernacular of the Florentine language, it is considered a masterpiece of classical early Italian prose.

"Giovanni Boccaccio's work taught citizens how to maintain mental wellbeing in times of epidemics and isolation." - The New Statesman. In 1348 the plague struck Florence with devastating fury--killing three quarters of its population. Ten young men and women fled the plague-ridden city to a deserted villa in the countryside. To pass the evenings and to remember their former lives, each member of the party told a story illustrating the set theme of the night. And so, we have these one hundred wonderfully vivid stories. These are tales of love, passion, jealousy, and pride as well as of profit and loss. Ribaldry, licentiousness, farce, trickery and deceit are a constant thread, but with a moral undercurrent. Boccaccio's stories are miniatures which give us a window onto life at the time and depict a society on the cusp of change, with the renaissance virtues of quick-wittedness, intelligence and sophistication trumping the monastic and feudal virtues of piety and loyalty. The Decameron is a masterpiece of early Italian prose, and its tales have inspired many subsequent writers, most famously Chaucer and Shakespeare but also Moli re, Tennyson, Keats, Longfellow and Shelley. Even Martin Luther had occasion to repurpose one of Boccaccio's stories. About the Author: Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 - 1375) was a medieval Italian writer and an important early humanist. Along with Petrarch and Dante, he is regarded as one of the fathers of the Italian language. In contrast to the formulaic approach of his medieval contemporaries, Boccaccio uses realistic dialogue and complex plots which were unusual at the time. His best-known work after The Decameron is On Famous Women, the first collection devoted exclusively to biographies of women in Western literature. About the Translator: John Payne was a poet and translator, who is especially remembered for his translations of The Decameron, The Arabian Nights and the Diwan Hafez.