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The Decameron
The Decameron, written in the mid-14th century by Giovanni Boccaccio, remains one of the most influential works of Western literature. This foundational masterpiece of Italian prose is structured as a frame narrative: as the Black Death ravages Florence in 1348, a group of seven young women and three young men seek refuge in a secluded villa in the countryside. To pass the time and maintain their spirits, they agree to tell one story each per night for ten days, resulting in a collection of 100 novellas.Boccaccio's work is a vivid tapestry of medieval life, breaking away from the rigid theological structures of the time to celebrate the human experience in all its complexity. The tales span a vast emotional and moral range-from ribald comedy and sharp-witted trickery to tragic romance and profound ethical dilemmas. Unlike the courtly literature of the era, The Decameron focuses on the merchant class, the clergy, and the peasantry, offering a realistic (though often satirical) look at social dynamics, gender roles, and the unpredictability of Fortune.The structural brilliance of the work lies in its thematic organization; each day is governed by a "king" or "queen" who chooses the topic, such as "tales of love that ended unhappily" or "the power of human wit." This variety allowed Boccaccio to explore the full breadth of human nature-virtue, vice, desire, and survival. Historically, The Decameron is credited with elevating the vernacular Italian language to a literary status previously reserved for Latin, directly influencing later giants like Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare.This edition provides readers with a faithful preservation of Boccaccio's sharp irony and narrative flow. It serves as both an essential historical document of the post-Plague era and a timeless exploration of the stories we tell to survive dark times. Whether read for its historical importance or its sheer entertainment value, The Decameron continues to resonate as a powerful tribute to human resilience and the enduring power of the written word.
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The Decameron
The Decameron[a] (Italian: Decameron[b] or Decamerone[c]), subtitled Prince Galehaut (Old Italian: Prencipe Galeotto[d]) and sometimes nicknamed l'Umana commedia ("the Human comedy", as it was Boccaccio that dubbed Dante Alighieri's Comedy "Divine"), is a collection of short stories by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375). The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men; they shelter in a secluded villa just outside Florence in order to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city. The epidemic is likely what Boccaccio used for the basis of the book which was thought to be written between 1348 and 1353. The various tales of love in The Decameron range from the erotic to the tragic. Tales of wit, practical jokes, and life lessons also contribute to the mosaic. In addition to its literary value and widespread influence (for example on Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales), it provides a document of life at the time. Written in the vernacular of the Florentine language, it is considered a masterpiece of early Italian prose.[1]TitleThe book's primary title exemplifies Boccaccio's fondness for Greek philology: Decameron combines Greek ¿¿¿¿, déka ("ten") and ¿¿¿¿¿, h¿méra ("day") to mean "ten-day [event]",[2] referring to the period in which the characters of the frame story tell their tales.Hexaemeron (Six Days, literally The Six-Day [Work]) was a familiar title in Boccaccio's day. It was commonly used for sermons and treatises commenting on the biblical story of the creation of the world, which took place in six days (and was therefore referred to as the Hexaemeron or Six-day work).[3] The tradition goes back to Patristic literature, notably Ambrose of Milan's Hexaemeron also known as Exameron (ca. 378 C.E.).[4] In thirteenth-century Italy Bonaventure still authored Collationes in Hexaemeron (1273, literally Talks on the Six Days) in the same tradition. Exploring the links between the Decameron and hexaemeral literature's exposition of creation usually structured in six chapters (one for each day), scholarship pointed out that Boccaccio's ten narrators intervene following a cataclysmic outbreak of plague as though they were metaphorically re-creating a world through their stories, day after day.[5] The mischievous critique of monastic culture contained in Boccaccio's book also led some to wonder whether the erudite title Decameron might not comprise a parodistic dimension.[6]Boccaccio's subtitle, Prencipe Galeotto, refers to Galehaut, a fictional knight sometimes called haut prince (high prince) in the 13th-century Lancelot-Grail. Galehaut was a close friend of Lancelot, but an enemy of King Arthur. When Galehaut learned that Lancelot loved Arthur's wife, Guinevere, he set aside his own ardor for Lancelot in order to arrange a meeting between his friend and Guinevere. At this meeting the Queen first kisses Lancelot, and so begins their love affair. Through this notorious episode, Galeotto had become the epitome of the romantic go-between in the Italian imagination - a Cupid able to bind two hearts. By subtitling his book Prencipe Galeotto, Boccaccio signals that he h
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The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio (Unabridged Edition)
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.
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Das Dekameron
Unveränderter Nachdruck der Originalausgabe von 1841. Der Verlag Antigonos spezialisiert sich auf die Herausgabe von Nachdrucken historischer Bücher. Wir achten darauf, dass diese Werke der Öffentlichkeit in einem guten Zustand zugänglich gemacht werden, um ihr kulturelles Erbe zu bewahren.
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Tragical Tales, and Other Poems
Reprint of the original, first published in 1837. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the public in good condition in order to preserve their cultural heritage.
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Tragical Tales, and Other Poems
Reprint of the original, first published in 1837. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the public in good condition in order to preserve their cultural heritage.
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Contes de Boccace
Réimpression inchangée de l'édition originale de 1869. La maison d'édition Antigonos est spécialisée dans la publication de réimpressions de livres historiques. Nous veillons à ce que ces ouvrages soient mis à la disposition du public dans de bonnes conditions afin de préserver leur patrimoine culturel.
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Fiore del comento sopra la Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri
Ristampa immutata dell'edizione originale del 1842. La casa editrice Antigonos è specializzata nella pubblicazione di ristampe di libri storici. Ci assicuriamo che queste opere siano messe a disposizione del pubblico in buone condizioni, al fine di preservare il patrimonio culturale.
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Contes de Boccace
Réimpression inchangée de l'édition originale de 1869. La maison d'édition Antigonos est spécialisée dans la publication de réimpressions de livres historiques. Nous veillons à ce que ces ouvrages soient mis à la disposition du public dans de bonnes conditions afin de préserver leur patrimoine culturel.
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Fiore del comento sopra la Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri
Ristampa immutata dell'edizione originale del 1842. La casa editrice Antigonos è specializzata nella pubblicazione di ristampe di libri storici. Ci assicuriamo che queste opere siano messe a disposizione del pubblico in buone condizioni, al fine di preservare il patrimonio culturale.
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Tutte le opere
«[¿] Io intendo di raccontare cento novelle, o favole o parabole o istorie che dire le vogliamo, raccontate in diece giorni da una onesta brigata di sette donne e di tre giovani nel pistilenzioso tempo della passata mortalitá fatta, ed alcune canzonette dalle predette donne cantate al lor diletto. Nelle quali novelle, piacevoli ed aspri casi d¿amore ed altri fortunosi avvenimenti si vedranno cosí ne¿ moderni tempi avvenuti come negli antichi [¿]». «Come il Petrarca con le sue rime segnò il destino della nuova lirica europea, così il Boccaccio, raccogliendo e decantando le esperienze vigorose ma selvose del romanzo e del racconto medievali, fissò genialmente il tipo della nuova narrativa europea nel suo Decameron. Questa raccolta di cento novelle diversissime, narrate in dieci giornate da sette fanciulle e tre giovani, ritiratisi in villa per sfuggire alla peste fiorentina del 1348, è caratterizzata dal diverso nell¿unitario e dall¿unitario nel diverso: è caratterizzata cioè da quel ritmo fantastico e stilistico che segnerà inconfondibilmente ¿ in contrasto coll¿epopea classica, cioè colla narrativa antica ¿ la narrativa moderna, da Chaucer a Cervantes (che Tirso de Molina chiamava «nuestro español Boccaccio»), da Manzoni e da Balzac e da Melville a Dickens e a Zola e a Tolstoi giù giù fino a Lawrence, a Musil, a Faulkner, a Pasternak». (Vittore Branca) Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
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Decameron
Das Klassiker-Ereignis des Jahres: kommentierte Neuübersetzung zum 650. Todestag Boccaccios am 21.12.2025Der Triumph heiteren Erzählens über die Lustfeindlichkeit, die Angst, den Tod Das 'Decameron' ist zeitlose Literatur, erdichtet zur Erheiterung jener, die sonst nicht viel zu lachen haben: der Frauen. Der Pest abgetrotzt, gelangte es jüngst durch die Corona-Pandemie zu unerwarteter Aktualität. In der deutschen Neuübersetzung besticht es vor allem durch seine literarische Strahlkraft, seine reichen erzählerischen Mittel, einen wunderbar eleganten Stil, lyrischen Schwung und eine nahezu unbegrenzte Vielfalt an Tonlagen - von höfischer Erhabenheit bis zu köstlicher Frivolität. Ein Epochenwerk am Vorabend der sinnenfrohen Renaissance und ein weltliterarischer Solitär, der zehn Tage mal zehn Geschichten lang den Triumph der Erzählkunst über die triste Wirklichkeit zelebriert. Anlässlich des sechshundertfünfzigsten Todestags Giovanni Boccaccios hat Luis Ruby dessen Hauptwerk neu ins Deutsche übersetzt und dabei vor allem die stilistische Eleganz und Schönheit herausgearbeitet. So lässt sich im Deutschen das rhythmisch-klangliche Kunstwerk nachempfinden, als das das Original gedichtet wurde. Ein umfassender Stellenkommentar samt editorischem Apparat von Horst Lauinger und Luis Ruby sorgt für unmittelbares Leseverständnis und Horizonterweiterungen die Novellenkunst seit Boccaccio betreffend. Ijoma Mangold ordnet Autor und Werk historisch ein und interpretiert dessen Hauptmotive, die bis heute zu uns sprechen: 'Dies Buch ist keines der Liebe, sondern eines der Erotik.' Ein Fest für alle Buchliebhaber - in prachtvoller Ausstattung: -Zweifarbdruck -Schmucksatz -Farbige Fadenheftung -Farbiges Leseband -Augenfreundlich getöntes Papier -26 großformatige Hochglanz-Illustrationen -Silberfoliengeprägter Leineneinband Die Motive der großformatigen Bildtafeln stammen von Mario Balassi, Lazzaro Bastiani, Sandro Botticelli, Charles-Émile Callande de Champmartin, Vincenzo Campi, Giovanni Cariani, Franciabigio, Henri Lehmann, August Macke, Maître de la Cité des Dames, Martin van Meytens, Giovanni di Paolo, Maxfield Parrish, Pablo Picasso, Valentine Cameron Prinsep, Johann Anton Ramboux, Marinus van Reymerswaele, Egon Schiele, Francesco di Stefano Pesellino, Thomas Stothard, Tizian, Oliviero Toscani und Ignacio Zuloaga. Dieser Titel ist auch in einer limitierten Luxusausgabe (978-3-7175-2586-8) erhältlich.
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