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Decameron The John Payne Translation Hardcover - 1983
by Boccaccio, Giovanni
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In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside. They amuse themselves by each telling a story a day for the ten days they are destined to remain there - a hundred stories of love, adventure and surprising twists of fate. Less preoccupied with abstract concepts of morality or religion than earthly values, the tales range from the bawdy Peronella hiding her lover in a tub to Ser Cepperallo, who, despite his unholy effrontery, becomes a Saint. The result is a towering monument of European literature and a masterpiece of imaginative narrative.
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Every time I stop to consider your natural inclination to pity, most gracious ladies, I recognize that you will find the opening of this present work abhorrent and distressing; for so is the painful recapitulation of the recent deadly plague, which occasioned hardship and grief to everyone who witnessed it or had some experience of it, and which marks the introduction of my work.
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- Title Decameron The John Payne Translation
- Author Boccaccio, Giovanni
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition Th
- Pages 444
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
- Date November 16, 1983
- ISBN 9780520035577
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Decameron: The John Payne Translation: Days I-V (Volume 1)
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DECAMERON: THE JOHN PAYNE TRANSLATION [THREE VOLUMES]
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Decameron: The John Payne Translation
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DECAMERON 3-Volume Set: Volume One Days I-V; Volume Two Days VI-X; Volume Three California
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