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Title: TALES FROM THE DECAMERON
By: Giovanni Boccaccio, Peter Hainsworth (Trans)
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0141191333
ISBN 13: 9780141191331
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Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 1 October, 2015
Pages: 352
Translated from: Italian
Description: Includes tales as 'Isabella and the Pot of Basil' (famously adapted by Keats) and 'Patient Griselda' alongside many boisterous and daring stories featuring faithless wives, philandering priests and curious nuns.
Synopsis: Bawdy and moving, hilarious and reflective - these stories offer the very best of Boccaccio's Decameron in a brilliant, playful new translation.This hugely enjoyable volume collects the best stories of Boccaccio's masterwork in a fresh, accessible new translation by Peter Hainsworth. It includes such celebrated, thought-provoking tales as 'Isabella and the Pot of Basil' (famously adapted by Keats) and 'Patient Griselda' alongside many boisterous and daring stories featuring faithless wives, philandering priests and curious nuns.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Penguin Classics
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... DEKAMERON UND FIAMMETTE, VOLUMES 3-4...
A MYRROUR FOR MAGISTRATES WHEREIN MAY BE SEEN BY EXAMPLE OF OTHER, WITH HOWE GREUOUS PLAGES VICES ARE PUNISHED
A MYRROUR FOR MAGISTRATES WHEREIN MAY BE SEENE BY EXAMPLES PASSED IN THIS REALME, WITH HOWE GREUOUS PLAGUES, VYCES ARE PUNISHED IN GREAT PRINCES AND MAGISTRATES, AND HOW FRAYLE AND VNSTABLE WORLDLY PROSPERITY IS FOUNDE. (1559)
A MYRROUR FOR MAGISTRATES WHEREIN MAY BE SEENE BY EXAMPLES PASSED IN THIS REALME, WITH HOWE GREUOUS PLAGUES, VYCES ARE PUNISHED IN GREAT PRINCES AND MAGISTRATES, AND HOW FRAYLE AND VNSTABLE WORLDLY PROSPERITY IS FOUNDE. (1571)
A PROVISIONAL TRANSLATION OF THE EARLY LIVES OF DANTE AND OF HIS POETICAL CORRESPONDENCE WITH GIOVANNI DEL VIRGILIO
A PROVISIONAL TRANSLATION OF THE EARLY LIVES OF DANTE AND OF HIS POETICAL CORRESPONDENCE WITH GIOVANNI DEL VIRGILIO (HB)
A TRANSLATION OF GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO'S LIFE OF DANTE
A TRANSLATION OF GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO'S LIFE OF DANTE
A TRANSLATION OF GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO'S LIFE OF DANTE (HB)
A TRANSLATION OF GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO'S LIFE OF DANTE...
AARDIGE EN VERMAKELYKE HISTORIEN, VOLUME 2
AMETO, OUER COMEDIA DELLE NIMPHE FIORENTINE. CON NUOUE POSTILLE...
AMMONIZIONI DEL RE FELICE DI SPAGNA AL SUO FIGLIUOLO
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ANDREUCCIO DA PERUGIA
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ANTOLOGIA DELLE OPERE MINORI VOLGARI DI GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO
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BOCCACCIO''S OLYMPIA: EDITED WITH AN ENGL (PB)
BOCCACCIO'S OLYMPIA, ED. WITH AN ENGLISH RENDERING
BOCCACCIO'S OLYMPIA, ED. WITH AN ENGLISH RENDERING (HB)
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CENNI DI GIOVANNI BOCCACCI INTORNO A TIT (PB)
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CERTAINE WORTHYE MANUSCRIPT POEMS OF GREAT ANTIQUITIE RESERUED LONG IN THE STUDIE OF A NORTHFOLKE GENTLEMAN. AND NOW FIRST PUBLISHED BY I.S. 1 THE STATLY TRAGEDY OF GUISTARD AND SISMOND. 2 THE NORTHREN MOTHERS BLESSING. 3 THE WAY TO THRIFTE (1597)
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