Providing new ways of reading Boccaccio’s masterpiece, Decameron, Ferme analyzes the dynamics between the women who...... more

Giuseppe Mazzotta provides both a powerful framework for reading the Decameron and an important contribution to...... more

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio has remained, since it s publication, one of the most important books ever written...... more

Boccaccio’s Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance demonstrates that Boccaccio’s puzzling masterpiece takes on...... more

Boccaccio’s Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance demonstrates that Boccaccio’s puzzling masterpiece takes on...... more

Decameron. In a comparison of selected tales from The Decameron with works by Cimabue and Giotto, fifteenth-century manuscript...... more

Boccaccio s masterpiece is here issued unabridged. It is a complete world in itself, one in which we... more

The Decameron is a tale of tales: a group of travelers in medieval Italy seeking refuge from the Black Plague share...... more

The Decameron itself is comprised of 100 "novels" (or "novellas" -- short stories) told over a ten-day period by ten...... more

Boccaccio s masterpiece is here issued unabridged. It is a complete world in itself, one in which we... more

This inaugural book in a new series of critical essays on the Decameron will provide an important guide to reading the...... more

Decameron. In a comparison of selected tales from The Decameron with works by Cimabue and Giotto, fifteenth-century manuscript...... more

the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales in their entirety, Thompson reveals many surprising similarities--ranging from the...... more

Mediterranean world where Christian and Arab meet. He emphasizes the relationship between the Decameron and the precocious...... more

愛欲、機靈才智和命運是這部故事集的主題和運作軌跡。作者開宗明義地說故事並非寫給正人君子或衛道人士看，而是給「閒暇無事的太太小姐們」看的。很明顯地薄伽丘要把中古禁制規例和僵化了的神祕城堡大門闖開，讓男女... more

the earthy world of Boccaccio s Decameron. Like other erotic decks, Gaudenzi and Spadanuda amplify the sexual imagination...... more

卜伽丘(1313—1375)，意大利著名作家。《十日談》是他的代表作，也是歐洲文學史上第一部現實主義巨著。 作品敘述1348年佛羅倫薩瘟疫流行時，10名青年男女在一所別墅避難，他們終日歡宴，每人每天講... more

Set against the backdrop of the fourteenth-century Black Death, an anthology of one hundred interlin... more

Includes tales as ’Isabella and the Pot of Basil’ (famously adapted by Keats) and ’Patient Griselda’... more

In the summer of 1348, with the plague ravaging Florence, ten young men and women take refuge in the... more

to the Ninth Day of the ​Decameron....... more

"Previously published as The decameron project."...... more

The expert readings in this collection explore the ten stories of Day Six of Boccaccio’s Decameron - a day that...... more

, as the above text describes Boccaccio’s fourteenth-century masterpiece the Decameron. At once bawdy, witty, tragic and...... more

Of all the tales to be found in Boccaccio’s Decameron, the tragic story of King Tancred’s efforts to frustrate the love...... more

This compilation of eleven essays offers exciting new perspectives on one of the greatest works of I... more

Stories about pranks figure prominently in Boccaccio’s Decameron. This book explores Boccaccio’s poetics of repetition...... more