Boccaccio's Decameron.
by Giovanni Boccaccio
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Decameron, collection of tales by Giovanni Boccaccio, probably composed between 1349 and 1353. The work is regarded as a masterpiece of classical Italian prose. While romantic in tone and form, it breaks from medieval sensibility in its insistence on the human ability to overcome, even exploit, fortune.
The Decameron comprises a group of stories united by a frame story. As the frame narrative opens, 10 young people (seven women and three men) flee plague-stricken Florence to a delightful villa in nearby Fiesole. Each member of the party rules for a day and sets stipulations for the daily tales to be told by all participants, resulting in a collection of 100 pieces. This storytelling occupies 10 days of a fortnight (the rest being set aside for personal adornment or for religious devotions); hence, the title of the book, Decameron, or “Ten Days’ Work.” Each day ends with a canzone (song), some of which represent Boccaccio’s finest poetry.
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Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), J. M. Rigg (1855-1926), Vincenzo Brusantino Conte, Thomas Wright (1810-1877)Times
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Colophon of vol. 1: The text of this first volume ... has been prepared from that of the first English translation, printed by Isaac Jaggard for Mathew Lownes in 1625, and compared with the first edition of 1620. The wood engravings have been recut by E. J. Beedham and E. Joyce Francis from those in the edition printed by the brothers Gregorii in Venice in 1492.
"Three hundred and twenty-five copies of this edition of which three hundred are for sale have been printed in Great Britain ... and three copies have been printed on vellum. This copy is numbered 111."
Vol. I has, as special t.p., a reproduction of the t.p. of the 1625 edition: The modell of wit, mirth, eloquence and conversation framed in ten dayes, of an hundred curious pieces, by seven honourable ladies, and three noble gentlemen. Preserved to posterity by the renowned John Boccacio, the first refiner of Italian prose: and now translated into English.
Vol II has special t.p., reproduced from part 2 of the original edition: The Decameron, containing an hundred pleasant novels ... The last five dayes. London, printed by I. Jaggard, 1620. (The 2d part was not reprinted in 1625 but sheets of the original edition were bound up with the new edition of part 1 to form a complete book. cf Vol. II, p. [266]
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