| Description |
lii, 331 p. |
| Series |
Oxford world's classics
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| Contents |
Giovanni Boccaccio -- Ser Giovanni Fiorentino -- Franco Sacchetti -- Giovanni Gherardi da Prato -- Gentile Sermini -- Antonio Manetti -- Masuccio Salernitano -- Sabbadino degli Arienti -- Niccolò Machiavelli -- Giovan Francesco Straparola -- Luigi da Porto -- Giovanni Brevio -- Matteo Bandello -- Anton Francesco Grazzini -- Pietro Fortini -- Cristoforo Armeno -- Giovambattista Giraldi Cinzio -- Giambattista Basile -- Francesco Pon a |
| Summary |
With thirty-nine stories by nineteen authors, many translated for the first time, this anthology presents tales from the whole genre and period. Here we meet a rich cast of humble peasants and shrewd craftsmen, frustrated wives, libidinous friars, ill-fated lovers, and vengeful nobles. These works had a considerable impact in English, and the selection includes tales that have provided sources for Chaucer, Shakespeare, Webster, Marston, Dryden, Byron and Keats. The typical novella is situated in a precise time and place and features people who either existed historically or are presumed to have done so. The subject-matter, whether ribald or sentimental, comic or tragic, often reflects the social and economic conditions of its age and thus the novella has been seen as a crucial stage in the development of fictional realism and the emergence of the novel |
| Subject |
Italian fiction
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Short stories, Italian
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| Alt Author |
Mortimer, Anthony
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| ISBN |
9780198794967 (pbk.) |
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