Italian Renaissance Tales

by Giovanni Boccaccio and Ser Giovanni Fiorentino

'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 meet a rich cast of humble peasants...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198794967
• ISBN13: 9780198794967
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.7"