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The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio 9798890968050
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The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.73In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside...Taken from the Greek, meaning 'ten-day event', Boccaccio's Decameron sees his... -
Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.38The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353. It is a medieval allegorical work best... -
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, Volume 1 by Professor Giovanni Boccaccio 9781437525984
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The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 9780393427882
Booksplease Price: £13.72"The Decameron has had numerous English translations, most of them bowdlerized or reliant on corrupt texts. The challenge is to move gracefully between the widely varying idioms employed for... -
Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 9781840221336
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.01A 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... -
The Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio 9781804173442
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.45With a new foreword. Written in the fourteenth century by Italian author, poet and scholar Giovanni Boccaccio, the Decameron contains stories told by ten young Florentines who have fled the city to... -
Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 9781847494122
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.32In the summer of 1348, the plague ravages Florence, and ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselves with tales of love, death and corruption, featuring a... -
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 9780199540419
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.84The Decameron (c.1351) was written in the wake of the Black Death, a shattering epidemic which had shaken Florence's confident entrepreneurial society to its core. In a country villa outside the... -
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 9780393350265
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.34Ten young Florentines flee the Black Death of 1348 by escaping to a country villa overlooking the city. There they spend ten days telling each other one hundred stories. Their stories run the gamut... -
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 9780451531735
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £7.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451531735Author Giovanni BoccaccioFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprin -
Life of Dante Giovanni Boccaccio 9781847496638
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37"Life of Dante" brings together the earliest accounts of Dante available, putting the celebratory essay of literary genius Giovanni Boccaccio together with the historical analysis of leading humanist... -
Tales from the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Bawdy and moving, hilarious and reflective - these stories offer the very best of Boccaccio's Decameron in a brilliant, playful new translation.This hugely enjoyable volume collects the best stories... -
The Decameron of Boccaccio by Professor Giovanni Boccaccio 9781434429483
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The Decameron, Or, Ten Days' Entertainment, of Boccaccio: by Giovanni Boccaccio 9780371756539
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371756539Author Giovanni BoccaccioFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprin -
The Decameron, Or, Ten Days' Entertainment, of Boccaccio: Volume 4 by Giovanni Boccaccio 9780461198997
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461198997Author Giovanni BoccaccioFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprin -
Genealogy of the Pagan Gods, Volume 2: Books vi X by Giovanni Boccaccio
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.90Genealogy of the Pagan Gods by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) is an ambitious work of humanistic scholarship whose goal is to plunder ancient and medieval literary sources so as to create a massive... -
The Decameron (Royal Collector's Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) by Giovanni Boccaccio 9781774378496
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A Boccaccian Renaissance: Essays on the Early Modern Impact of Giovanni Boccaccio and His Works by Martin Eisner 9780268105891
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Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard by Mary Flannery 9781789148633
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.14This is a new account of the life and accomplishments of medieval England's most famous poet, Geoffrey Chaucer. For over six centuries, Chaucer has epitomized poetic greatness, though in more recent... -
Renaissance Humanism: An Anthology of Sources by Margaret L. King 9781624661112
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.66By far the best collection of sources to introduce readers to Renaissance humanism in all its many guises. What distinguishes this stimulating and useful anthology is the vision behind it: King shows... -
The Terror of History: On the Uncertainties of Life in Western Civilization by Teofilo F. Ruiz
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23This book reflects on Western humanity's efforts to escape from history and its terrors--from the existential condition and natural disasters to the endless succession of wars and other man-made... -
Building a Monument to Dante: Boccaccio As Dantista by Jason Houston 9781442640511
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £38.72The shadow of Dante Alighieri looms large in the works of Giovanni Boccaccio, and yet the full extent of Boccaccio's relationship to Dante remains largely unexplored. Building a Monument to Dante... -
Boccaccio: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works by 9780226079189
Booksplease Price: £57.89Long celebrated as one of "the Three Crowns" of Florence, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-75) experimented widely with the forms of literature. His prolific and innovative writings - which range beyond the... -
Chaucer's Italy by Richard Owen 9781909961838
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.19Geoffrey Chaucer might be considered the quintessential English writer, but he drew much of his inspiration and material from Italy. In fact, without the tremendous influence of Francesco Petrarch... -
Chaucer's Italy by Richard Owen
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59Geoffrey Chaucer might be considered the quintessential English writer, but he drew much of his inspiration and material from Italy. Without the tremendous influences of Francesco Petrarch and... -
Vita nuova: Italian Text with Facing English Translation by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £21.00This bilingual edition of the Vita Nuova is the first facing-page translation of this text to be available in over 50 years. Dino S. Cervigni and Edward Vasta have translated Dante's lyrics into... -
![The Distaff Gospels: A First Modern English Edition of ""Les Evangiles Des Quenouilles by Madeleine Jeay 9781551115603](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2795050/2794386/9781551115603__60275.1714851621.jpg?c=1 "The Distaff Gospels: A First Modern English Edition of ""Les Evangiles Des Quenouilles by Madeleine Jeay 9781551115603")
The Distaff Gospels: A First Modern English Edition of ""Les Evangiles Des Quenouilles by Madeleine Jeay 9781551115603
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £25.36The Distaff Gospels (Les Evangiles des Quenouilles), a fascinating fifteenth-century collection of more than 250 popular beliefs, constitutes a kind of encyclopedia of late medieval women's wisdom... -
The Divine Comedy: Inferno by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51An acclaimed translation of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy Volume 1: Inferno that retains all the style, power and meaning of the original, this Penguin Classics edition is translated from the... -
The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic by New York Times Magazine
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.13A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy... -
The Zekameron: One hundred tales from behind bars and eyelashes by Maxim Znak
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62WINNER OF ENGLISH PEN AWARD 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIOUSNESS PRIZE 2024 'How did these stories get into your hands? They flew, as if painted by Marc Chagall, through... -
Dante's Divine Comedy: A Biography by Joseph Luzzi 9780691284347
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.56The life and times of Dante's soaring poetic allegory of the soul's redemptive journey toward GodWritten during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy describes...