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Decameron
Engelsk
Bogcover for Decameron af Giovanni Boccaccio, 9781840221336
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Engelsk
Sider:
848
ISBN-13:
9781840221336
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
184022133X
Udg. Dato:
5 nov 2004
Størrelse i cm:
19,7 x 12,9 x 4,5
Oplagsdato:
5 nov 2004
Forfatter(e):
Oversætter:
Paperback 2004
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A new version of John Payne''s Victorian translation, with an Introduction by Cormac O Cuilleanain.

1348. The Black Death is sweeping through Europe. In Florence, plague has carried off one hundred thousand people. In their Tuscan villas, seven young women and three young men tell tales to recreate the world they have lost, weaving a rich tapestry of comedy, tragedy, ribaldry and farce.

Boccaccio''s Decameron recasts the storytelling heritage of the ancient and medieval worlds into perennial forms that inspired writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare down to our own day. Boccaccio makes the incredible believable, with detail so sharp we can look straight into the lives of people who lived six hundred years ago. His Decameron hovers between the fading glories of an aristocratic past - the Crusades, the Angevins, the courts of France, the legendary East - and the colourful squalor of contemporary life, where wives deceive husbands, friars and monks pursue fleshly ends, and natural instincts fight for satisfaction.

Here are love and jealousy, passion and pride - and a shrewd calculation of profit and loss which heralds the rise of a dynamic merchant class. These stories show us early capitalism during a moment of crisis and revelation.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
848
ISBN-13:
9781840221336
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
184022133X
Udg. Dato:
5 nov 2004
Størrelse i cm:
19,7 x 12,9 x 4,5
Oplagsdato:
5 nov 2004
Forfatter(e):
Oversætter:
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