Decameron
By: Giovanni Boccaccio ; the John Payne translation, revised and annotated by Charles S. Singleton.
Contributors: Payne, John, 1842-1916.; Singleton, Charles Southward, 1909-
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng; ita
Number of pages: 948
Subjects: Plague -- Europe -- History -- Fiction; Storytelling -- Fiction
Description: The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death. The stories are told in a country villa outside the city of Florence by ten young noble men and women who are seeking to escape the ravages of the plague. Boccaccio's skill as a dramatist is masterfully displayed in these vivid portraits of people from all stations in life, with plots that revel in a bewildering variety of human reactions.
Notes: Translation of: Decamerone.
"This revision of the John Payne translation is based on the newly identified holograph manuscript of the Decameron known as Hamilton 90"--T.p. verso.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Days 1-V; title: v. 2. Days VI-X; title: v. 3. Notes and commentary.