Title : Decameron - Boccaccio - book
Summary :
If, once again, storytellers are in fashion, the time has come to rediscover the first of them, Giovanni Boccaccio, who perhaps owes to the year of his birth – 1313! – one of the most brilliant literary fortunes of all time. Composed around 1350, translated throughout Europe, imitated, even plundered, for centuries, his Decameron had a posterity as prestigious as it was innumerable, from Chaucer to La Fontaine, from Molière to Potocki.
Fleeing the plague that decimated Florence in 1348, seven young women and three young men found refuge in a sumptuous Tuscan villa. For ten days, punctuated by concerts, parties, and banquets, each will strive to entertain the others daily by inventing a tale. Neither emotion nor tragedy are absent from these hundred stories, but the overall tone, as we know, is rather gallantry, a gallantry that is prompt, natural, expeditious, and in any case not given to long sighs.
"Anyone who wanted to reduce Boccaccio to the same modesty as Virgil would certainly do nothing worthwhile and would be sinning against decorum by taking it upon himself to observe it," remarks La Fontaine.
Complete, faithful, precise, this translation has conformed to this wise advice.
- EAN: 9782253907022
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