Tales from the Decameron

By (author) : Giovanni Boccaccio
Translated by : Peter Hainsworth
Introduction by : Peter Hainsworth
Notes by : Peter Hainsworth
Publishers: Penguin Books Ltd
Print Format: Paperback

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Includes tales as 'Isabella and the Pot of Basil' (famously adapted by Keats) and 'Patient Griselda' alongside many boisterous and daring stories featuring faithless wives, philandering priests and curious nuns.

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“The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375), made a great impression on me. . . . Ten youths—seven women and three men—take turns telling stories for 10 days. At around the age of 16, I found it reassuring that Boccaccio, in conceiving his narrators, had made most of them women. Here was a great writer, the father of the modern story, presenting seven great female narrators. There was something to hope for. . . . The seven female narrators of the Decameron should never again need to rely on the great Giovanni Boccaccio to express themselves. . . . The female story, told with increasing skill, increasingly widespread and unapologetic, is what must now assume power.” —Elena Ferrante, The New York Times

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Title	Tales from the Decameron
By (author)	Giovanni Boccaccio
Translated by	Peter Hainsworth
Introduction by	Peter Hainsworth
Notes by	Peter Hainsworth
Publishers	Penguin Books Ltd
Language of text	English
Original language of a translated text	Italian
ISBN	9780141191331
Product Form	Paperback
Height	198 mm
Width	129 mm
Thickness	20 mm
Unit weight	258 gr