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The Decameron : a new translation, contexts, criticism /

This volume presents fifty-five stories, newly translated, of the hundred novelle that comprise Boccaccios masterpiece. This Norton Critical Edition includes: Fifty-five judiciously chosen stories from Wayne A. Rebhorns translation of The Decameron ; Introductory materials and explanatory footnotes...

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Main Authors: Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. (Author)
Group Author: Rebhorn, Wayne A., 1943- (Translator)
Published: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: [2016]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Italian
Edition: First edition.
Series: A Norton critical edition
Subjects:
Plague > Europe > History > Fiction.
Storytelling > Fiction.
Summary: This volume presents fifty-five stories, newly translated, of the hundred novelle that comprise Boccaccios masterpiece. This Norton Critical Edition includes: Fifty-five judiciously chosen stories from Wayne A. Rebhorns translation of The Decameron ; Introductory materials and explanatory footnotes by Wayne A. Rebhorn, along with three maps ; Biographical works by Filippo Villani and Ludovico Dolce along with literary studies by Francesco Petrarca, Andreas Capellanus, and Boccaccio ; Eleven critical essays, including those by Giuseppe Mazzotta, Millicent Marcus, Teodolinda Barolini, Susanne L. Wofford, Luciano Rossi, and Richard Kuhns. -- Amazon.com.
Item Description: Translated from the Italian.
Carrier Form: lvi, 494 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-494).
ISBN: 9780393935622 (paperback) :
0393935620 (paperback)
Index Number: PQ4272
CLC: I546.074
I546.43
Call Number: I546.43/B664-2
Contents: The text of the Decameron -- Contexts -- Criticism.

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