The Decameron (Norton Critical Edition) ANNOTATION
An entertaining series of 100 stories told in a country villa outside the city of Florence by ten young noble men and women seeking to escape the plague. Vivid portraits of people from all stations in life.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
This volume contains twenty-one of the hundred novelle that comprise Boccaccioﾽs masterpiece. The stories have been chosen to represent the most
notable of the authorﾽs themes and the most characteristic and influential examples of his narrative technique. All are in new translations by Mark Musa and Peter Bondanella which successfully capture Boccaccioﾽs variations in diction and sentence structure.
"Contemporary Reactions" includes Petrarchﾽs letters to Boccaccio after
completion of The Decameron and the responses of such Italian Renaissance figures as Leonardo Bruni, Filippo Villani, Giannozzo Manetti, and Ludovico Dolce, all of which have been translated for this edition.
"Modern Criticism" includes interpretations by Ugo Foscolo, Francesco De Sanctis, Erich Auerbach, Aldo D. Scaglione, Wayne Booth, Tzvetan Todorov, Robert J. Clements, and Marga Cottino-Jones.
Thomas G. Berginﾽs important historical overview is published here for the first time, while Ben Lawtonﾽs study of Pier Paolo Pasoliniﾽs filming of The Decameron and a general essay by the editors were written specially for this
volume.
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