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• Ninfale fiesolano
• Decameron
• Corbaccio
• Rime
• Iohannes e Jannetta : due volt e una maschera.

• v. 1. Libri 1-8.--
• v. 2. Libri 9-15. Nota. Indci.

• v. 1. Vita di Dante. Redazioni compendiose della Vita de Dante. Comento alla Divina commedia.--
• v. 2. Continuazione del Comento alla Divina commedia.--
• v. 3. Continuazione del Comento alla Divina commedia. Argomenti in terza rima alla Divina commedia. Rubriche in prosa alla Divina commedia. Nota. Indice dei nomi.

"A new edition -- with new preface, bibliography and notes of Boccaccio's encyclopedia of historical biography dealing with the fortunes and calamities of famous people, both mythical and actual, from Adam to Francesco Petrarch"-- Provided by publisher.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction from The DecameronThe Author's PrefaceIntroduction to the First DayThe First DayI. Story
• 1: Cepparello's False ConfessionI. Story
• 2: The Jew who Sees Rome and ConvertsI. Story
• 3: Melchisedech and the Tale of the Three RingsI. Story
• 5: The King of France and the Banquet of HensI. Story
• 10: Master Alberto Shames the Woman who Refuses his LoveConclusion to the First DayThe Second DayII. Story
• 5: Andreuccio's Three Misadventures in NaplesII. Story
• 7: The Sultan's Daughter Sleeps with Nine Men and Returns a VirginThe Third DayIII. Story
• 1: Masetto becomes Gardener to a ConventIII. Story
• 6: Ricciardo sends a Jealous Wife to the Baths to catch her HusbandIII. Story
• 8: Ferondo visits PurgatoryIII. Story
• 9: Giletta of NarbonneIII. Story
• 10: Alibech and Rustico put the Devil back into HellThe Fourth DayIntroductionIV. Story
• 1: Tancredi, Ghismunda, and her Lover's HeartIV. Story
• 2: Frate Alberto as the Angel GabrielIV. Story
• 5: Lisabetta and the Pot of BasilIV. Story
• 8: The Broken Hearts of Girolamo and SalvestraThe Fifth DayV. Story
• 1: Cimone and Lisimaco Abduct their BridesV. Story
• 4: The Lovers, the Balcony, and the NightingaleThe Sixth DayVI. Story
• 1: Madonna Oretta and the Story RideVI. Story
• 4: Chichibio and the One-legged BirdVI. Story
• 7: Donna Filippa Confronts the Adultery LawsVI. Story
• 9: Guido Cavalcanti's Witty EscapeThe Seventh DayVII. Story
• 2: Peronella's Lover and the BarrelVII. Story
• 6: A Quick-Thinking AdulteressThe Eighth DayVIII. Story
• 3: Calendrino and the Heliotrope StoneVIII. Story
• 7: The Scholar Frozen and the Lady BurnedThe Ninth DayIX. Story
• 5: Calandrino in LoveIX. Story
• 6: Three Beds and a CradleIX. Story
• 10: The Spell that Turns Women to MaresThe Tenth DayX. Story
• 3: Nathan Offers his LifeX. Story
• 5: A Lady's Honour for a Garden in WinterX. Story
• 8: The Perfect Friendship of Tito and GisippusX. Story
• 10: Griselda's Remarkable PatienceThe Author's EpilogueIn ContextThe Black Deathfrom Marchione di Coppo Stefani, from The Florentine Chronicle (ca. 1389), "Concerning the Black Death in the City of Florence, Mortal to Many People, "The Black Death: fourteenth century images Accounts of Boccaccio's LifeGiannozzo Manetti, "The Life of Giovanni Boccaccio"Ludovico Dolce, "A Description of the Life of Messer Giovanni Boccaccio" (1552)Sources and Antecedentsfrom Apuleius, The Golden Ass: from Book Nine, "The Lover in the Barrel" (c. 160 CE)from Petrus Alphonsus, Disciplina Clericalis, "The Two Perfect Friends, " (12th century)from Andreas Capellanus, The Art of Courtly Love (c. 1180)Anonymous, "Concerning a Priest and a Lady" (13th century)from Anonymous, Il novellino (1281-1300)How a king raised his son in darkness, then revealed to him all there was in the world, and how the boy found women above all things the most pleasing.""How the Sultan in search of money tried to snare a Jew through litigation.""The never-ending story." from Giovanni Boccaccio, The Questions of Love: "The Fourth Question, as proposed by Menedon" (1335-36)The Tale of Patient Griseldafrom Francesco Petrarch, Letter to Boccaccio on "The Tale of Patient Griselda" (1373)Anonymous, "A Most Pleasant Ballad of Patient Grissell" (ca. 1600)Patterns of Influencefrom Sir Thomas Elyot, The Book Named the Governour: from Bk. II, Chap. 12, "The Wonderful History of Titus and Gisippus, whereby is fully declared the figure of perfect amity." (1531)from Giovan Francesco Straparola, The Pleasant Nights (Piacevoli notti) (1550, 1553)from the ProemRodolino and Violante, or The Broken HeartsIllustrations to the Decameron.
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The editors have selected 33 of the 100 tales, including at least two from each of the ten days of storytelling. Included as well are Boccaccio's general introduction and conclusion to the work, as well as the introduction and conclusion to the first day; the reader is thus provided with a real sense of the Decameron's framing narrative. In selecting from among the tales themselves, the editors have looked to include the most interesting, the most representative, and the most widely taught of the tales, as well as a few (such as X.8, on the theme of perfect friendship) that are less familiar but that the editors feel to be deserving of wider circulation.The Beecher and Ciavolella translation conveys some sense of the often extended structures of Boccaccio's sentences, and a real sense as well of the different registers Boccaccio uses, from the often formal tone of the framing narrative to the highly colloquial feel of the dialogue in many of the more bawdy tales. Throughout, the translators have chosen language that makes this classic work accessible to twenty-first-century undergraduates. The edition includes extensive explanatory notes and a concise but wide-ranging introduction to Boccaccio's life and times, as well as to the Decameron itself. A unique selection of contextual materials concludes the volume; these include documentary accounts and illustrations of the Black Death in Florence; examples of source materials that Boccaccio drew on; examples from later medieval and early modern literature (both in Italy and in England) of work that was heavily influenced by the Decameron; documents (including Petrarch's famous comments about the tale of Patient Griselda) providing a sense of the early reception history of the work; and a variety of illustrations from early manuscripts of the Decameron. Like the versions provided of the Boccaccio tales themselves, the texts in this selection of "In Context" materials have been newly translated for this edition.
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