BOCCACCIO GIOVANNI – Globolibri.it https://www.globolibri.it Libreria Genova libri inglesi spagnoli francesi tedeschi cinesi giapponesi piccolo principe books Wed, 14 May 2025 20:50:17 +0000 it-IT hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://www.globolibri.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/cropped-LOGO-1-32x32.png BOCCACCIO GIOVANNI – Globolibri.it https://www.globolibri.it 32 32 The Decameron https://www.globolibri.it/negozio/libri-inglese/narrativa-in-inglese/the-decameron-9781804173442/ Wed, 14 May 2025 20:50:17 +0000 https://www.globolibri.it/?post_type=product&p=21908 With a new foreword. Written in the fourteenth century by Italian author, poet and scholar Giovanni Boccaccio, the Decameron contains stories told by ten young Florentines who have fled the city to escape the Plague. Presented within the sophisticated structure of a surrounding frame story, the one hundred allegorical tales are shared through the voices of these people as they spend their nights regaling the company with tales intended to guide and comfort, from the erotic, sensual, and bawdy to the intellectual, philosophical and tragic.

The work’s fundamental purpose is one of ethical instruction through the means of beautiful and entertaining prose, touching on themes of morality, fortune, human will, wit, virtue, female agency, and love won and lost. This is Boccaccio’s masterpiece and is generally viewed as the work that confirmed his reputation as the founder of Italian prose literature. It is also one of the world’s great literary masterpieces.

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]]> Decameron https://www.globolibri.it/negozio/libri-inglese/narrativa-in-inglese/decameron-9781847494122/ Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:12:25 +0000 https://www.globolibri.it/?post_type=product&p=21424 In the summer of 1348, the plague ravages Florence, and ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselves with tales of love, death and corruption, featuring a host of colourful characters, from lascivious clergymen and mad kings to devious lovers and false miracle-makers. Named after the Greek for ten days, Boccaccio’s book of stories draws on ancient mythology, contemporary events and everyday life, leaving an indelible mark on the works of future writers such as Chaucer and Shakespeare. J.G.

Nichols’s new translation stays as faithful to the original as possible while being written in a clear and eminently modern English, capturing the timeless humour of one of the great classics of world literature.

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