Italian Renaissance Tales - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Anthony Mortimer (Editor)Series:Oxford World's ClassicsPublish date:2020-01-01Pages:384
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University Press, USAISBN-13:9780198794967ISBN-10:198794967UPC:9780198794967Book Category:Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Ancient, Classical & Medieval, European, MedievalBook Topic:ItalianSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCEZ7VZ603
Italian Renaissance Tales
'Thus she was decapitated, and this was the end to which she was brought by her unbridled lusts.' For over two centuries after Boccaccio's groundbreaking Decameron, the Italian novella exercised a crucial influence over European prose fiction. 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...
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University Press, USAISBN-13:9780198794967ISBN-10:198794967UPC:9780198794967Book Category:Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Ancient, Classical & Medieval, European, MedievalBook Topic:ItalianSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCEZ7VZ603
Anthony Mortimer is Emeritus Professor at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and also taught for many years at the University of Geneva. In addition to his scholarly work on English Renaissance Poetry, he has produced a series of verse translations: Dante (the Vita Nuova), Cavalcanti, Petrarch, Michelangelo, Angelus Silesius, Villon, Baudelaire, and The Song of Roland. His version of Luigi...
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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