The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. Transl. into English by John Payne 1931

Description: The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. Transl. into English by John Payne. With Illustrations....The Decameron Of Boccaccio, 1931 Illustrated, Blue Ribbon Books, Italian Stories...HARDCOVER CONDITION GOOD - SIGNED BY PREVIOUS OWNER - PUBLISHED BY BLUE RIBBON BOOKS COPYRIGHT 1931 - WITH NEW ILLUSTRATIONS SPECIALLY MADE FOR THIS EDITION BY STEELE SAVAGE --528 PAGES BOOK SIZE 9 5/8 X 6 1/2....The Decameron is a collection of one hundred short stories, told in ten days by seven women and three men, who left Florence to escape the plague that infected the city in 1348. The work is therefore divided into "Days" and in the Proem the author explains the character of his book. In Day I we talk about "what pleases everyone the most", in Day II "about those who, infested by various things, have, in addition to their hopes, managed to have a happy ending", in Day III "of those who have desired something very much with industry acquired, or the lost one recovered”… and so on. Boccaccio paints an exceptional fresco of thirteenth-century Florence, of the virtues and vices of his people, from the promptness of the servant Chichibio, who turns his master's anger into laughter, to the cruel Tancredi, who has his daughter's lover killed; from the melancholic generosity of Federigo degli Alberighi, who sacrifices his favorite falcon for love, to the crazy jealousy of Guglielmo da Rossiglione. Freely themed stories, short stories with happy endings, lucky or tragic love stories alternate with examples of greatness of soul, jokes and mockery, heroic deeds, in a grandiose secular and profane epic of medieval man.

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