Il Decameron Di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio : Cittadino Fiorentino (Paperback)

from emclem

This translation of The Decameron is particularly good. More than anything, the translator really conveys the sense of playfulness that is present in Boccaccio's work, which in the hands of a less capable scholar might seem rather cruel and lascivious. The introduction and endnotes to this editio...

from Peppuzzo

A collections of tales. Smartness wins against prejudice and religion, love against cupidity. Literature wins over death, joy and laughter win against ignorance and desperation. A positive message from a great book. A book that created a language.

from grheault

The book the nuns wouldn't let you read in high school. A collection of riotous short stories of sex, friars, nuns, maiden ladies, married ladies, cuckolded husbands, and cheating spouses in and out of windows, doors, and situations. This must be where the modern sitcom originated.

from jrcovey

It's unlikely that I could say anything about the Decameron that hasn't been said before, but I would like to add my voice to the many who have praised the McWilliam English translation. His prose is hilarious where the intent is humourous, formal where appropriate, and in general both idiomatic ...

from LisaMaria_C

These are 100 short stories and like the earlier Arabic 1001 Nights or Chaucer's later Canterbury Tales told within a frame: Ten Florentine nobles, seven women and three men, flee the city to the country to escape the Black Plague for ten days. Each in turn is established as Queen or King for the...