Boccaccio and the Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Boccaccio and the Book write by Rhiannon Daniels. This book was released on 2009. Boccaccio and the Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As a new digital era increasingly impacts on the 'age of print', we are ever more conscious of the way in which information is packaged and received. The influence of the material form on the reading process was no less important during the gradual shift from manuscript to early print culture. Focusing on the physical structure and presentation of manuscripts and printed books containing texts by one of the most influential authors of the medieval period, Rhiannon Daniels traces the evolving social, cultural, and economic profile of Boccaccio's readership and the scribes and printers who laboured to reproduce three of his works: the Teseida, Decameron, and De mulieribus claris.
The English Boccaccio
The English Boccaccio - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The English Boccaccio write by Guyda Armstrong. This book was released on 2013-10-30. The English Boccaccio available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio has had a long and colourful history in English translation. This new interdisciplinary study presents the first exploration of the reception of Boccaccio’s writings in English literary culture, tracing his presence from the early fifteenth century to the 1930s. Guyda Armstrong tells this story through a wide-ranging journey through time and space – from the medieval reading communities of Naples and Avignon to the English court of Henry VIII, from the censorship of the Decameron to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, from the world of fine-press printing to the clandestine pornographers of 1920s New York, and much more. Drawing on the disciplines of book history, translation studies, comparative literature, and visual studies, the author focuses on the book as an object, examining how specific copies of manuscripts and printed books were presented to an English readership by a variety of translators. Armstrong is thereby able to reveal how the medieval text in translation is remade and re-authorized for every new generation of readers.
The Decameron
The Decameron - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Decameron write by Giovanni Boccaccio. This book was released on 2023-07-07. The Decameron available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the time of a devastating pandemic, seven women and three men withdraw to a country estate outside Florence to give themselves a diversion from the death around them. Once there, they decide to spend some time each day telling stories, each of the ten to tell one story each day. They do this for ten days, with a few other days of rest in between, resulting in the 100 stories of the Decameron. The Decameron was written after the Black Plague spread through Italy in 1348. Most of the tales did not originate with Boccaccio; some of them were centuries old already in his time, but Boccaccio imbued them all with his distinctive style. The stories run the gamut from tragedy to comedy, from lewd to inspiring, and sometimes all of those at once. They also provide a detailed picture of daily life in fourteenth-century Italy.
Famous Women
Famous Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Famous Women write by Giovanni Boccaccio. This book was released on 2003. Famous Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Giovanni Boccaccio devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is this text, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted to women.
Try Never
Try Never - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Try Never write by Anthony Madrid. This book was released on 2017. Try Never available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Poetry. Written under the spell of a medieval Welsh poetic form, the poems in Anthony Madrid's incantatory second book, TRY NEVER, each offer up their own strange world. They're full of erudition, humor, and rare magnificence. A single poem can contain "bottles and cans," Mount Everest, an upset stomach, Texas rain, a hawk, the evil queen, a "twice- mended lid," and Ralph; as if to say, anything's possible.
