"Rebhorn deserves our gratitude for an eminently persuasive translation.I celebrate his accomplishment."-Edith Grossman Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. The brigade includes seven women: Pampinea, Filomena, Neifile, Fiammetta. In response to the horror, ten young people abandon Florence for the countryside. The disease causes intense suffering and almost certain death. Rebhorn's Decameron now speaks to us directly in a "lively, contemporary. In the year 1348, a great plague sweeps through Florence, Italy. Published on the 700th anniversary of Boccaccio's birth, Wayne A. A tribute to the essential power of storytelling and laughter, even in the most trying times, The Decameron has been a source and inspiration for countless other storytellers over the centuries. While romantic in tone and form, it breaks from medieval sensibility in its insistence on the human ability to overcome, even exploit, fortune. The work is regarded as a masterpiece of classical Italian prose. Their stories run the gamut of medieval genres-romance, tragedy, comedy and farce-and are rich with wit, earthiness and even bawdy irreverence.Boccaccio's reputation as one of the world's greatest authors rests entirely on this singular, overflowing work. Decameron, collection of tales by Giovanni Boccaccio, probably composed between 13. There they spend ten days telling each other one hundred stories. Ten young Florentines flee the Black Death of 1348 by escaping to a country villa overlooking the city.
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