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 of Florence by ten young noble men and women who are seeking to escape the ravages of the plague. Boccaccio's skill as a dramatist is masterfully displayed in these vivid portraits of people from all stations in life, with plots that revel in a bewildering variety of human reactions.Translated with an Introduction and Notes by G. H. McWilliam

Four hilarious and provocative stories from Boccaccio's Decameron, featuring cuckolded husbands, cross-dressing wives and very bad priests. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375). Boccaccio's Decameron is available in Penguin Classics in both a complete and selected edition.

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While the Black Death rages through fourteenth-century Florence, a group of young people retreat to the healthful air of the countryside and amuse themselves by telling tales of romance and adventure. This is the premise of Boccaccio's Decameron, a landmark of early Renaissance literature and one of the world's great story collections. Vast in scope, teeming with colorful characters, and rich in worldly wisdom, these 25 tales from the original 100 encompass a variety of genres — folktales, ancient myths, fables, and anecdotes ranging from earthy satires of hypocritical clergy to gripping tales of murder and revenge and stories of passionate love. Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Keats drew upon Boccaccio's masterpiece for inspiration, and the grand old storyteller’s fables continue to captivate modern readers.

Life of Dante is a fascinating and hugely important literary work both in terms of the revelations it provides into the lives and thoughts of two great Italian men, and also as an early example of biography. Boccaccio was a fervent admirer of Dante, and as such, he embarked upon writing this short piece as a vindication of the merits of his illustrious fellow-citizen. Yet far from being simply an account of the misfortunes that befell the great Florentine exile, the resulting Life of Dante also gives precious insight into Boccaccio's own ideas on a wide variety of issues including poetry, literature, women, and society.

Love can be surprisingTen young Florentines take refuge in the countryside from the Black Death and tell stories to pass the time. From the unfaithful wife who unwittingly eats her lover’s heart to the sly peasant plotting to seduce a whole nunnery, these are tales of lust, adventure and unexpected twists of fate.

A milestone in feminist literature, this marvelous European romance, narrated by a woman, is considered the first psychological novel in a modern language and a precursor of stream-of-consciousness fiction. Written by Giovanni Boccaccio between 1343 and 1345, The Elegy has never before been available in a complete or accurate English translation.Lady Fiammetta, the first-person narrator and protagonist, recounts how, although a married woman, she falls in love with a handsome young foreigner named Panfilo and, driven by irresistible passion, becomes his lover. Panfilo subsequently abandons Fiammetta and returns to his native land, where his elderly father is said to be dying. When he fails to keep his promise to return, Fiammetta, in what is the heart of the narrative, describes her longings, her anguish, and her despair. A host of contradictory sentiments drive her to desperation and to an unsuccessful suicide attempt. After a time, Fiammetta resumes her futile wait for Panfilo. She finally resolves to seek him out in his native land. Disguising her true intent from her husband, she secures his promise to help her in this undertaking. Addressing an exclusively female audience, Fiammetta warns them about the vicious ways of men. Her whole narrative, in fact, adds up to an indictment of men as both readers and lovers. Eliciting a remarkably wide range of responses from readers and critics, Fiammetta has been variously described as a pathetic victim of male cruelty; an irresponsible fool of a girl; a sophisticated, cunning, and wholly disingenuous female; and, finally, a genuinely modern woman. Whatever judgment we make of her, Fiammetta stands out among medieval women as an ardent and outspoken feminist.

Sokół to jedna z najbardziej znanych nowel na świecie! Napisany w okresie włoskiego Renesansu utwór zapisał się na stałe w historii literatury. Wchodzący w skład sławnego cyklu nowel Dekameron Giovanniego Boccaccia, opowiada historię wielkiej miłości szlachcica Federiga do pięknej damy, Monny Giovanny. Mimo przeciwności losu Federigo został ostatecznie nagrodzony za swoją wytrwałość i stałość w uczuciach. A jaką rolę odegrał w tym jego wierny towarzysz - sokół?

The first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted exclusively to women, Famous Women affords a fascinating glimpse of a moment in history when medieval attitudes toward women were beginning to give way to more modern views of their potential. Virginia Brown’s acclaimed translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s classic work, commissioned for the I Tatti Renaissance Library, is the first English edition based on the autograph manuscript of the Latin.

Extraídas da obra-prima Decâmeron.Desenhadas com realismo, as novelas deste livro transportam-nos para uma sociedade medieval ridicularizada, em que impera o humor, a fantasia, a volúpia e a malícia.

l Filostrato is a poem by the Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio, and the inspiration for Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and, through Chaucer, the Shakespeare play Troilus and Cressida. It is itself loosely based on Le Roman de Troie, by 12th-century poet Benoît de Sainte-Maure.Il Filostrato is a narrative poem on a classical topic written in "royal octaves" (ottava rima) and divided into eight cantos. The title, a combination of Greek and Latin words, can be translated approximately as "laid prostrate by love". The poem has a mythological plot: it narrates the love of Troilo (Troilus), a younger son of Priam of Troy, for Criseida (Cressida), daughter of Calcas (Calchas).Although its setting is Trojan, Boccaccio's story is not taken from Greek myth, but from the Roman de Troie, a twelfth-century French medieval re-elaboration of the Trojan legend by Benoît de Sainte-Maure known to Boccaccio in the Latin prose version by Guido delle Colonne (Historia destructionis Troiae).The plot of the Filostrato can be read as a roman à clef of Boccaccio's love of "Fiammetta". Indeed, the poem suggests it. The atmosphere of the poem is reminiscent of that of the court of Naples, and the psychology of the characters is portrayed with subtle notes. There is no agreement on the date of its composition: according to some, it may have been written in 1335, whereas others consider it to date from 1340.

Easy readers series to learn the Italian language. Andreuccio e un giovane mercante di cavalli. un bel giorno va a Napoli per comprare cavalli con una borsa piena di soldi. La sua ricchezza fa pero gola a molti e la ingenuita di Andreuccio viene messa a dura prova. Andreuccio va incontro a guai di ogni fa conoscenza di una sorella mai vista, perde tutti i suoi abiti, finisce nella tomba di un arcivescovo e altro dalle disavventure riesce tuttavia a salvarsi pordosi via il bottino migliore.

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The third in the very popular Very Christmas series, this volume brings together the best Italian Christmas stories of all time in an elegant and vibrant collection featuring classic tales and contemporary works. With writing that dates from the Renaissance to the present day, from Boccaccio to Pirandello, as well as Anna Maria Ortese, Natalia Ginzburg and Nobel laureate Grazia Deledda, this choice selection delights and intrigues. These literary gems are filled with ancient churches, trains whistling through the countryside, steaming tureens, plates piled high with pasta, High Mass, dashed hopes, golden crucifixes, flowing wine, shimmering gifts and plenty of style. Like everything the Italians do, this is Christmas with its very own verve and flair, the perfect literary complement to a Buon Natale italiano.

Due sfortunate esperienze amorose dell'autore sono lo sfondo autobiografico delle due opere raccolte nel volume. "L'Elegia di madonna Fiammetta" ha carattere lirico, un notevole approfondimento psicologico dei personaggi e una scrittura capace di rendere le sottili sfumature della natura "La Fiammetta è già il romanzo moderno", scrisse Carducci. Il "Corbaccio" invece è l'opera più scaltra e vivace di Boccaccio, ricca di umori mordaci e sarcastici, di rancori e sprezzature.

El presente libro, escrito entre 1351 y 1355, es una de las primeras biografías de Dante en sentido moderno. Boccaccio, gran admirador y conocedor de la obra del poeta florentino, al que sin embargo jamás llegó a conocer, se propuso componer una semblanza del que fue estrecho amigo de su padre y, a sus ojos, víctima de la bajeza moral de la Florencia del siglo XIV. Para ello, recurrió tanto a episodios transmitidos por la tradición oral como a testimonios de personas que lo conocieron, y abordó la figura del escritor con gran rigor moral y finísima ironía. Dante se nos muestra en estas páginas como hombre concernido por la realidad de su tiempo y creador de una obra divina—tal como el propio Boccaccio la bautizó—que abraza la literatura sacra y profana; como poeta que no sólo custodia el saber teológico, sino que también defiende la verdad y los valores de la humanitas.

The Second Volume can be found here. Giovanni Boccaccio, contador de histórias, poeta e humanista, foi um dos três grandes escritores que surgiram em Itália entre as últimas décadas do século XIII e princípio do século XIV . Os outros foram Dante e Petrarca. Num certo sentido pode ser considerado o criador da novelística italiana.Amigo e correspondente de Petrarca - que tratava por mestre - Boccaccio encontrou nessa amizade encorajamento para a sua obra.Começou a escrever Decameron por volta de 1349, pouco depois da peste negra ter assolado Florença, matando quase três quartos da população da cidade. É provável que algumas das histórias já tivessem sido escritas antes, mas foi nesta altura que Boccaccio delineou a estrutura da obra, que haveria de terminar em 1352. Boccaccio reviu e reescreveu Decameron em 1370-71, fixando um texto que exprime em termos narrativos o espírito laico da burguesia comercial que afirmava então o seu protagonismo na vida social europeia. Fá-lo através de uma estrutura equilibrada em simetrias naturais, com um variado desfile de peripécias, situações e personagens, do simples popular ao libertino, num registo que vai da sátira de uma religião em crise à emoção poética perante a dor ou a morte.Como escreveu Riccardo Averini para a edição pela Formar desta tradução de Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, a primeira a partir do italiano editada em Portugal:"Cada leitor poderá encontrar o verdadeiro Boccaccio e avaliar como ele teve em conta a realidade dos sentimentos e dos instintos humanos: os mais altos e os mais baixos. (...) Lendo os contos do Decameron todos os portugueses terão a possibilidade de apreciar uma das mais valiosas obras do espírito humano, com que se encerra a Idade Média e se abrem os horizontes da cultura da Renascença, da qual Giovanni Boccaccio foi um percursor e um arauto."

Boccaccio's vrouwen hebben verlangens, nemen initiatief, zijn zelfbewust en intelligent. En vaak zijn ze ook nog mooi en charmant. Verder vertonen ze alle hebbelijkheden die aantrekkelijke vrouwen ook nu wel eens aankleven: ze kunnen ongenaakbaar zijn, ijdel, ondoorgrondelijk en overspelig. En ze zijn hoe dan ook goed in staat om gebruik en misbruik te maken van de zwakke plekken van de mannen door wie ze begeerd, bejaagd en onderdrukt worden. Slimme vrouwen bevat tien meesterlijke en hilarische verhalen uit Giovanni Boccaccio's Decamerone (ca. 1350), afkomstig uit de onlangs verschenen en inmiddels veelgeprezen vertaling van Frans Denissen.

Giovanni Boccaccio’s Genealogy of the Pagan Gods is an ambitious work of humanistic scholarship whose goal is to plunder ancient and medieval literary sources so as to create a massive synthesis of Greek and Roman mythology. The work also contains a famous defense of the value of studying ancient pagan poetry in a Christian world.The complete work in fifteen books contains a meticulously organized genealogical tree identifying approximately 950 Greco-Roman mythological figures. The scope is enormous: 723 chapters include over a thousand citations from two hundred Greek, Roman, medieval, and Trecento authors. Throughout the Genealogy, Boccaccio deploys an array of allegorical, historical, and philological critiques of the ancient myths and their iconography.Much more than a mere compilation of pagan myths, the Genealogy incorporates hundreds of excerpts from and comments on ancient poetry, illustrative of the new spirit of philological and cultural inquiry emerging in the early Renaissance. It is at once the most ambitious work of literary scholarship of the early Renaissance and a demonstration to contemporaries of the moral and cultural value of studying ancient poetry. This is the first volume of a projected three-volume set of Boccaccio’s complete Genealogy. (20110524)

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In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside. They amuse themselves by each telling a story a day for the ten days they are destined to remain there - a hundred stories of love, adventure 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.

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 - 1375) tiene un papel preponderante dentro de la historia de la literatura occidental gracias a su prolífica obra, que abarca desde géneros para la lectura recreativa hasta tratados de vasta erudición. Buena parte de su obra la dedicó a la lírica: a la composición de poemas de materia diversa, aunque en su mayoría amorosos, que ponen de manifiesto sus gustos personales, influencias y tendencias. Durante el siglo XVI, estos poemas fueron reunidos parcialmente bajo el título de Rime, ya que no fueron escritos con la intención de conformar un cancionero, y desde entonces las ediciones se han ido afinando, resultado de un arduo trabajo de investigación, enmiendas y anotaciones. Sin embargo, a pesar de la relevancia del autor, la disponibilidad de su obra es bastante limitada, sobre todo si se trata de materiales traducidos al español.La presente edición bilingüe italiano-español ofrece una selección de las Rime, con la intención de proveer a los estudiantes universitarios y al público en general de una muestra de la obra de Giovanno Boccaccio, autor imprescindible de la literatura medieval.

Το Δεκαήμερον ξετυλίγεται στους λόφους του Φιέζολε, λίγο πιο έξω από τη Φλωρεντία, το σωτήριο έτος 1348. Δέκα νέοι, εφτά κορίτσια και τρία αγόρια, έχουν καταφύγει εκεί πάνω για να γλιτώσουν από την πανούκλα που μαστίζει την πόλη. Οι τολμηρές ιστορίες που διηγούνται -δέκα κάθε μέρα- δεν είναι μόνο ένα παιχνίδι που κερδίζει αναβολές από το θάνατο, όπως στο Χίλιες και μία νύχτες. Είναι, κυρίως, ένας διαλεκτικός ύμνος στη ζωή, και όπως πρώτος επσήμανε ο Πετράρχης, μια εκπληκτική άσκηση ύφους, που έμελλε να γίνει σημείο αναφοράς για την ιταλική λογοτεχνία ώς τον δέκατο όγδοο αιώνα.

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The First Volume can be found here. Giovanni Boccaccio, contador de histórias, poeta e humanista, foi um dos três grandes escritores que surgiram em Itália entre as últimas décadas do século XIII e princípio do século XIV . Os outros foram Dante e Petrarca. Num certo sentido pode ser considerado o criador da novelística italiana.Amigo e correspondente de Petrarca - que tratava por mestre - Boccaccio encontrou nessa amizade encorajamento para a sua obra.Começou a escrever Decameron por volta de 1349, pouco depois da peste negra ter assolado Florença, matando quase três quartos da população da cidade. É provável que algumas das histórias já tivessem sido escritas antes, mas foi nesta altura que Boccaccio delineou a estrutura da obra, que haveria de terminar em 1352. Boccaccio reviu e reescreveu Decameron em 1370-71, fixando um texto que exprime em termos narrativos o espírito laico da burguesia comercial que afirmava então o seu protagonismo na vida social europeia. Fá-lo através de uma estrutura equilibrada em simetrias naturais, com um variado desfile de peripécias, situações e personagens, do simples popular ao libertino, num registo que vai da sátira de uma religião em crise à emoção poética perante a dor ou a morte.Como escreveu Riccardo Averini para a edição pela Formar desta tradução de Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, a primeira a partir do italiano editada em Portugal:"Cada leitor poderá encontrar o verdadeiro Boccaccio e avaliar como ele teve em conta a realidade dos sentimentos e dos instintos humanos: os mais altos e os mais baixos. (...) Lendo os contos do Decameron todos os portugueses terão a possibilidade de apreciar uma das mais valiosas obras do espírito humano, com que se encerra a Idade Média e se abrem os horizontes da cultura da Renascença, da qual Giovanni Boccaccio foi um percursor e um arauto."

Giovanni Boccaccios verdskjende klassikar i nytt utval.Året er 1348. Ti ungdomar flyktar frå svartedauden som herjar i Firenze, og isolerer seg i ein villa på landet. Alle er friske, og i ti dagar underheld dei kvarandre med å fortelje historier. Dette er ramma for «Dekameronen», eit ord som på norsk kan omsetjast til «Dei ti dagane».Storverket frå 1353 omfattar 101 historier på nærare 1000 sider. I dette utvalet finn du tolv av dei forrykande forteljingane. Vi har òg teke med eit utdrag fra. Boccaccios skakande vitnesbyrd frå pesten i Firenze. Boccaccios historier har mykje til felles med eventyra - dei handlar om kløktige tenestefolk og dumme herrar, om lausaktige kvinnfolk og kåte elskarar. Dei spenner frå erotikk til satire, frå det tragiske til det komiske, frå røff humor til livsvisdom.«Dekameronen» vert rekna som verdas første novellesamling og er ein grunnstein og eit vendepunkt i verdslitteraturen. Boka er eit av verdas mest betydelege verk og har inspirert forfattarar som Geoffrey Chauser, William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes og Jonathan Swift.Meir enn noko anna er dette eit skattkammer av gode soger.Til norsk ved Magnus Ulleland. Utval og føreord ved Jon Rognlien.