Related Books

The Decameron
Language: en
Pages: 1040
Authors: Giovanni Boccaccio
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-07-07 - Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In the time of a devastating pandemic, seven women and three men withdraw to a country estate outside Florence to give themselves a diversion from the death aro
Life of Dante
Language: en
Pages: 99
Authors: Giovanni Boccaccio
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-07 - Publisher: Alma Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"e;Life of Dante"e; brings together the earliest accounts of Dante available, putting the celebratory essay of literary genius Giovanni Boccaccio together with
Famous Women
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Giovanni Boccaccio
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Giovanni Boccaccio devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is this text, the first collection of biographies i
The English Boccaccio
Language: en
Pages: 734
Authors: Guyda Armstrong
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-30 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio has had a long and colourful history in English translation. This new interdisciplinary study presents the first explorati
Boccaccio
Language: en
Pages: 576
Authors: Victoria Kirkham,
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-09 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Long celebrated as one of “the Three Crowns” of Florence, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–75) experimented widely with the forms of literature. His prolific and