The Decameron: Selected Tales

ISBN-13: 9781554813001 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 360 str.

Giovanni Boccaccio; Don Beecher; Massimo Ciavolella

Opis

The editors have selected 33 of the 100 tales, including at least two from each of the ten days of storytelling. Included as well are Boccaccio's general introduction and conclusion to the work, as well as the introduction and conclusion to the first day; the reader is thus provided with a real sense of the Decameron's framing narrative.

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction from The Decameron
• The Author’s Preface
• Introduction to the First Day
• The First Day
• I. Story 1: Cepparello’s False Confession
• I. Story 2: The Jew who Sees Rome and Converts
• I. Story 3: Melchisedech and the Tale of the Three Rings
• I. Story 5: The King of France and the Banquet of Hens
• I. Story 10: Master Alberto Shames the Woman who Refuses his Love
• Conclusion to the First Day
• The Second Day
• II. Story 5: Andreuccio’s Three Misadventures in Naples
• II. Story 7: The Sultan’s Daughter Sleeps with Nine Men and Returns a Virgin
• The Third Day
• III. Story 1: Masetto becomes Gardener to a Convent
• III. Story 6: Ricciardo sends a Jealous Wife to the Baths to catch her Husband
• III. Story 8: Ferondo visits Purgatory
• III. Story 9: Giletta of Narbonne
• III. Story 10: Alibech and Rustico put the Devil back into Hell
• The Fourth Day
• Introduction
• IV. Story 1: Tancredi, Ghismunda, and her Lover’s Heart
• IV. Story 2: Frate Alberto as the Angel Gabriel
• IV. Story 5: Lisabetta and the Pot of Basil
• IV. Story 8: The Broken Hearts of Girolamo and Salvestra
• The Fifth Day
• V. Story 1: Cimone and Lisimaco Abduct their Brides
• V. Story 4: The Lovers, the Balcony, and the Nightingale
• The Sixth Day
• VI. Story 1: Madonna Oretta and the Story Ride
• VI. Story 4: Chichibio and the One-legged Bird
• VI. Story 7: Donna Filippa Confronts the Adultery Laws
• VI. Story 9: Guido Cavalcanti’s Witty Escape
• The Seventh Day
• VII. Story 2: Peronella’s Lover and the Barrel
• VII. Story 6: A Quick-Thinking Adulteress
• The Eighth Day
• VIII. Story 3: Calendrino and the Heliotrope Stone
• VIII. Story 7: The Scholar Frozen and the Lady Burned
• The Ninth Day
• IX. Story 5: Calandrino in Love
• IX. Story 6: Three Beds and a Cradle
• IX. Story 10: The Spell that Turns Women to Mares
• The Tenth Day
• X. Story 3: Nathan Offers his Life
• X. Story 5: A Lady’s Honour for a Garden in Winter
• X. Story 8: The Perfect Friendship of Tito and Gisippus
• X. Story 10: Griselda’s Remarkable Patience
• The Author’s Epilogue
• In Context
• The Black Death
• from Marchione di Coppo Stefani, from The Florentine Chronicle (ca. 1389), “Concerning the Black Death in the City of Florence, Mortal to Many People,”
• The Black Death: fourteenth century images
• Accounts of Boccaccio’s Life
• Giannozzo Manetti, “The Life of Giovanni Boccaccio”
• Ludovico Dolce, “A Description of the Life of Messer Giovanni Boccaccio” (1552)
• Sources and Antecedents
• from Apuleius, The Golden Ass: from Book Nine, “The Lover in the Barrel” (c. 160 CE)
• from Petrus Alphonsus, Disciplina Clericalis, “The Two Perfect Friends,” (12th century)
• from Andreas Capellanus, The Art of Courtly Love (c. 1180)
• Anonymous, “Concerning a Priest and a Lady” (13th century)
• from Anonymous, Il novellino (1281-1300)
• How a king raised his son in darkness, then revealed to him all there was in the world, and how the boy found women above all things the most pleasing.”
• “How the Sultan in search of money tried to snare a Jew through litigation.”
• “The never-ending story.”
• from Giovanni Boccaccio, The Questions of Love: “The Fourth Question, as proposed by Menedon” (1335-36)
• The Tale of Patient Griselda
• from Francesco Petrarch, Letter to Boccaccio on “The Tale of Patient Griselda” (1373)
• Anonymous, “A Most Pleasant Ballad of Patient Grissell” (ca. 1600)
• Patterns of Influence
• from Sir Thomas Elyot, The Book Named the Governour: from Bk. II, Chap. 12, “The Wonderful History of Titus and Gisippus, whereby is fully declared the figure of perfect amity.” (1531)
• from Giovan Francesco Straparola, The Pleasant Nights (Piacevoli notti) (1550, 1553)
• from the Proem
• Rodolino and Violante, or The Broken Hearts
• Illustrations to the Decameron