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The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio,

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio,
In the early summer of the year 1348, as a terrible plague ravages the city, ten charming young Florentines take refuge in country villas to tell each other stories - a hundred stories of love, adventure boccaccio decameron landmark literature world and surprising twists of fortune which later inspired Chaucer, Keats boccaccio decameron landmark literature world and Shakespeare. While Dante is a stern moralist, Boccaccio has little time for chastity, pokes fun at crafty, hypocritical clerics boccaccio decameron landmark literature world and celebrates the power of passion to overcome obstacles boccaccio decameron landmark literature world and social divisions. Like the Divine Comedy, the Decameron is a towering monument of medieval pre-Renaissance literature, boccaccio decameron landmark literature world and incorporates certain important elements that are not at once apparent to today's readers. In a new introduction to this revised edition, which also includes additional explanatory notes, maps, bibliography boccaccio decameron landmark literature world and indexes, Professor McWilliam shows us Boccaccio for what he is - one of the world's greatest masters of vivid boccaccio decameron landmark literature world and exciting prose fiction.
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Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron by David Wallace,

Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron by David Wallace,
In Boccaccio's innovative text ten young people leave Florence to escape the Black Death of 1348, boccaccio decameron landmark literature world and organize their collective life in the countryside through the pleasure boccaccio decameron landmark literature world and discipline of storytelling. David Wallace guides the reader through their one hundred novelle, which explore both new boccaccio decameron landmark literature world and familiar conflicts with unprecendented subtlety, urgency boccaccio decameron landmark literature world and humor: everything from the struggle for domestic space, fought out between individual men boccaccio decameron landmark literature world and women, to the greater politics of the Mediterranean world where Christian boccaccio decameron landmark literature world and Arab meet. He emphasizes the relationship between the Decameron boccaccio decameron landmark literature world and the precocious proto-capitalist culture of Boccaccio's Florence. He also discusses gender issues boccaccio decameron landmark literature world and the influence of the text, particularly on Chaucer boccaccio decameron landmark literature world and on the novel.
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World literature - World literature refers to literature from all over the world, including American literature, European literature, Asian literature, African literature, Arabic literature and so on. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe introduced the concept of Weltliteratur in 1827 to describe the growing availability of texts from other nations.

Guide to Modern World Literature - The Guide to Modern World Literature was Martin Seymour-Smith's attempt to describe all important 20th-century authors, in all languages, in an encyclopedic manner.

Literature of World War I - World War I has inspired great novels, drama and poetry. During the war itself, it has been estimated that thousands of poems were written every day by combatants and their relatives.

The Divine Comedy - The Divine Comedy (in Italian "Commedia", later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature, and one of the greatest of world literature. Its influence is so great that it affects the Western Christian view of the afterlife to this day.



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