The Decameron, also called Prince Galehaut, is a 14th-century medieval allegory by Giovanni Boccaccio, told as a frame story encompassing 100 tales by ten young people. The book's primary title exemplifies Boccaccio's fondness for Greek philology: Decameron combines two Greek words, Greek: deka ("ten") and (Greek: hēmera ("day"), to form a term that means "ten-day event." Ten days is the time period in which the characters of the frame story tell their tales.
The Decameron, also called Prince Galehaut, is a 14th-century medieval allegory by Giovanni Boccaccio, told as a frame story encompassing 100 tales by...
El Decameron es un libro constituido por cien cuentos, algunos de ellos novelas cortas, terminado por Giovanni Boccaccio en 1351, alrededor de tres temas: el amor, la inteligencia humana y la fortuna. Para engarzar estas cien historias, Boccaccio establecio un marco de referencia narrativo. La obra comienza con una descripcion de la peste bubonica (la epidemia de peste negra que golpeo a Florencia en 1348), lo que da motivo a que un grupo de diez jovenes, siete mujeres y tres hombres que huyen de la plaga, se refugien en una villa en las afueras de Florencia. Con el fin de entretenerse, cada...
El Decameron es un libro constituido por cien cuentos, algunos de ellos novelas cortas, terminado por Giovanni Boccaccio en 1351, alrededor de tres te...
El Decameron es un libro constituido por cien cuentos, algunos de ellos novelas cortas, terminado por Giovanni Boccaccio en 1351, alrededor de tres temas: el amor, la inteligencia humana y la fortuna. Para engarzar estas cien historias, Boccaccio establecio un marco de referencia narrativo. La obra comienza con una descripcion de la peste bubonica (la epidemia de peste negra que golpeo a Florencia en 1348), lo que da motivo a que un grupo de diez jovenes, siete mujeres y tres hombres que huyen de la plaga, se refugien en una villa en las afueras de Florencia. Con el fin de entretenerse, cada...
El Decameron es un libro constituido por cien cuentos, algunos de ellos novelas cortas, terminado por Giovanni Boccaccio en 1351, alrededor de tres te...
I therefore affirm it true, O most beautiful lady, that after by departing from the delightful city of Naples at the most charming season of the year and going hence to Sannio, you suddenly removed from mine eyes, more desirous of your angelic sight than of aught else, what I ought to have known by your presence but did not, that, by its contrary--that is, by the privation of it--I was given instant knowledge of. And this hath saddened my soul so far beyond any proper limit that I can clearly appreciate how great was the happiness.
I therefore affirm it true, O most beautiful lady, that after by departing from the delightful city of Naples at the most charming season of the year ...
Estratto: ...similmente nella presente opera, si come io spero che nel processo apparira. E cosi si cognoscera i poeti non essere mentitori, come gl'invidiosi e ignoranti li fanno. Appresso l'uficio del poeta e, si come per le cose sopradette assai chiaro si puo comprendere, questo nascondere la verita sotto favoloso e ornato parlare: il che avere sempre fatto i valorosi poeti si trovera da chi con diligenza ne cerchera. Ma cio che io ora ho detto, e da intendere sanamente. Io dico la verita, secondo l'oppenione di quegli tali poeti; percioche il poeta gentile, al quale niuna notizia fu della...
Estratto: ...similmente nella presente opera, si come io spero che nel processo apparira. E cosi si cognoscera i poeti non essere mentitori, come gl'i...
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio has remained, since it's publication, one of the most important books ever written and is widely considered a classic.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio has remained, since it's publication, one of the most important books ever written and is widely considered a clas...
