THE DECAMERON of Giovanni Boccaccio: Newly translated from the Italan by Frances Winwar wth an Introduction by Burton Rascoe, 2 viks,
de Boccaccio, Giovanni
- Usado
- good
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Good
- Librería
-
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1930. Limited edition. Hardcover. Good. 4to, 199 pages, red cloth, endpapers and covers lightl dampstained.
"It is a very fortunate thing for all of us that there is a DECAMERON to counter-poise THE DIVINE COMEDY. ... In making the present translation for this edition Frances Winwar, herself a novelist, has endeavored to render Boccaccio's fluid Tusdan vernacular into a correspoindingly simple and fluid conversational English - B. Rascoe." The 7th book from the LEC.
"It is a very fortunate thing for all of us that there is a DECAMERON to counter-poise THE DIVINE COMEDY. ... In making the present translation for this edition Frances Winwar, herself a novelist, has endeavored to render Boccaccio's fluid Tusdan vernacular into a correspoindingly simple and fluid conversational English - B. Rascoe." The 7th book from the LEC.
Sinopsis
In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside. They amuse themselves by each telling a story a day for the ten days they are destined to remain there - a hundred stories of love, adventure and surprising twists of fate. Less preoccupied with abstract concepts of morality or religion than earthly values, the tales range from the bawdy Peronella hiding her lover in a tub to Ser Cepperallo, who, despite his unholy effrontery, becomes a Saint. The result is a towering monument of European literature and a masterpiece of imaginative narrative.
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- Librería
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 0009386
- Título
- THE DECAMERON of Giovanni Boccaccio
- Autor
- Boccaccio, Giovanni
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Limited edition
- Editorial
- Limited Editions Club
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1930
- Palabras clave
- Boccaccio, decameron, burton rascoe,
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Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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Chicago, Illinois
Sobre Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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