Boccaccio in the Blaskets
By: [compiled by] James Stewart.
Contributors: Stewart, James.
Publisher: Officina Typographica
Published: 1988
Place of publication: [Galway, Ireland]
Language: eng; gle
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375 -- Translations into Irish -- History and criticism.; Oral tradition -- Ireland -- Blasket Islands.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
English and Irish on opposite pages.
The Irish translation of selected stories from the Decameron was found with other Blasket material in MS G 1021 in the National Library of Ireland, and is presented as evidence that the Decameron was known on the Great Blasket Islands.