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The Decameron: A New Translation : 21 Novelle, Contemporary Reactions, Modern Criticism

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The Decameron: A New Translation : 21 Novelle, Contemporary Reactions, Modern Criticism

This volume contains twenty-one of the hundred novelle that comprise Boccaccioâ€™s masterpiece.
The stories have been chosen to represent the most notable of the authorâ€™s themes and the most characteristic and influential examples of his narrative technique. All are in new translations by Mark Musa and Peter Bondanella which successfully capture Boccaccioâ€™s variations in diction and sentence structure.

"Contemporary Reactions" includes Petrarchâ€™s letters to Boccaccio after completion of The Decameron and the responses of such Italian Renaissance figures as Leonardo Bruni, Filippo Villani, Giannozzo Manetti, and Ludovico Dolce, all of which have been translated for this edition.

"Modern Criticism" includes interpretations by Ugo Foscolo, Francesco De Sanctis, Erich Auerbach, Aldo D. Scaglione, Wayne Booth, Tzvetan Todorov, Robert J. Clements, and Marga Cottino-Jones.

Thomas G. Berginâ€™s important historical overview is published here for the first time, while Ben Lawtonâ€™s study of Pier Paolo Pasoliniâ€™s filming of The Decameron and a general essay by the editors were written specially for this volume.
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W W Norton & Co Inc
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 1977-07-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780393091328

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