The Decameron is one of the greatest literary works of the Middle Ages. Ten young people have fled the terrible effects of the Black Death in Florence and, in an idyllic setting, tell a series of brilliant stories, by turns humorous, bawdy, tragic and provocative. This celebration of physical and sexual vitality is Boccaccio’s answer to the sublime other-worldliness of Dante’s Divine Comedy.

La raccolta di novelle è stata quasi certamente scritta fra il 1349 e il 1353, all’indomani cioè della terribile pestilenza che dal 1348 devastò l’Europa. Come dice il titolo grecizzante l’azione si svolge e si chiude nel giro di dieci giorni.Dopo un “proemio” indirizzato alle “vaghe donne” che per prova conoscano l’amore, la lunga introduzione alla prima giornata dà un quadro terrificante dell’atmosfera di orrore e di morte che circonda Firenze in preda alla peste. Boccaccio immagina che ...

Written in the middle of the 14th century as the Bubonic Plague decimated the population of Europe, "The Decameron" is a satirically allegorical collection of stories by the Italian author Boccaccio. The refined frame narrative of this work allows for ten Florentine women and men to flee the city and take refuge in a country villa of Italy. In the ten days they are to stay, each of them is to tell a story a day, the themes of which are determined by the elected king or queen for that day. ...

The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio - The year is 1348. The Black Death has begun to ravage Europe. Ten young Florentinesseven women and three menescape 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 storiestales of romance, tragedy, comedy, and farceone hundred in all. The result, called by one critic "the greatest short story collection of all time" (Leonard Barkan, Princ...

The Decameron is one of the most joyful, daring, and human books ever written. Set in 14th-century Florence, it gathers ten young men and women who flee the plague to a secluded villa, where they pass the days by telling stories — a hundred tales of love, wit, deception, and fortune. Through these voices, Boccaccio captures every shade of human nature, from innocence to cunning, devotion to desire. His storytellers speak with freedom and humor, finding in laughter a way to defy despair and...

The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta by Giovanni Boccaccio is a groundbreaking psychological narrative that gives voice to one of literature's earliest and most compelling female protagonists. Written in the 14th century, this remarkable work stands apart from traditional medieval storytelling by placing the emotional and interior life of a woman at its center, creating an intimate portrait of love, betrayal, longing, and despair. Presented as a first-person monologue, the narrative unfolds through...

The Decameron is Boccaccio's great vernacular masterpiece: a frame narrative in which ten young Florentines, fleeing the Black Death of 1348, retreat to the countryside and tell one hundred tales over ten days. The stories range from bawdy farce and anticlerical satire to tragic romance, mercantile cunning, and moral exemplum, revealing a supple prose style attentive to speech, social rank, and human appetite. J. M. Rigg's popular translation helped carry this foundational work of Italian ...

The Decameron is a fourteenth-century Italian collection of 100 novellas which heavily influenced the style and content of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales with its bawdy tales of love, adventure and religion.These complete and unabridged stories are performed for audio by various British actors including Nigel Planer, Rupert Friend, Coral Beed and James Rawlings.

Decameron is a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio. 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 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 tra...

In this Volume-two, ”Endeth here the fourth day of the Decameron, beginneth the fifth, in which under the rule of Fiammetta discourse is had of good fortune befalling lovers after divers direful or disastrous adventures. ”All the east was white, nor any part of our hemisphere unillumined by the rising beams, when the carolling of the birds that in gay chorus saluted the dawn among the boughs induced Fiammetta to rise and rouse the other ladies and the three gallants; with whom adown...

This version contains an active content that allows the reader navigate through any part of the book quickly and easily .The Decameron is a collection of Italian author of the novels of the 14th century, Giovanni Boccaccio ( 1313-1375 ) . The book is structured as a frame story contains 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men housed in a detached house just outside of Florence to escape the Black Death , which was afflicting the city .Boccaccio pr...

The Decameron, 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 t...