Giovanni Boccaccio: 108 books

Book cover of Trattatello in laude di Dante
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 22, 2018

Conservato in tre redazioni, tutte di mano del Boccaccio, il Trattatello in laude di Dante è stato composto fra il 1357 e il 1361**. Com’è noto e dichiarato sin dal titolo, si tratta di una “lode” all’Alighieri e alla sua celebre Divina Commedia.** In questa edizione alcuni termini sono stati lievemente e prudentemente attualizzati alla grafia contemporanea.
Book cover of Fiammetta
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Language: German
Release Date: July 21, 2012

Dem Geschmack der Zeit entsprechend entwarf Boccaccio das wiederkehrende Bild einer idealen Geliebten, die er Fiammetta nannte und deren reales Vorbild vermutlich eine neapolitanische Adlige namens Maria d'Aquino ist.
Book cover of Decameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 1, 2019

La raccolta di novelle è stata quasi certamente scritta fra il 1349 e il 1353, all'indomani cioè della terribile pestilenza che dal 1348 devastò l'Europa. Come dice il titolo grecizzante l'azione si svolge e si chiude nel giro di dieci giorni. Dopo un "proemio" indirizzato alle...
Book cover of Das Dekameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Language: German
Release Date: August 21, 2013

Obwohl Boccaccio den Inhalt vieler seiner Erzählungen aus dem Fundus der Weltliteratur, aus Fabeln, Parabeln und der oralen Tradition schöpfte, gelang ihm mit dem Dekamerone ein absoluter Klassiker und neben seinem großen Vorbild der Geschichten aus Tausend und Einer Nacht die wohl bekannteste Novellenanthologie...
Book cover of Decamerón. Antología erótica
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 31, 2018

Escrito a principios de la segunda mitad del siglo XIV, este libro reúne cien relatos que nos hablan del amor, la inteligencia humana y la fortuna, que con maestría e ingenio ofrece lecciones vitales al lector. Concebido poco después de que terminara de azotar la peste bubónica a Florencia, Boccaccio...
Book cover of De las mujeres ilustres en romance
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 3, 2015

Libro de Giovanni Boccacio que nos narra y explica los valores de un conjunto de mujeres del mundo clásico que han llegado a influir en épocas posteriores: desde Eva, Opis, Medea y un largo etcétera.
Book cover of The Decameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2003

In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside. They amuse themselves by each telling a story a day for the ten days they are destined to remain there - a hundred stories of love, adventure and surprising twists of fate. Less preoccupied...
Book cover of A Story of Ravenna
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013

Ravenna being a very ancient city in Romagna, there dwelt sometime a great number of worthy gentlemen, among whom I am to speak of one more especially, named Anastasio, descended from the family of Onesti, who by the death of his father, and an uncle of his, was left extraordinarily abounding in...
Book cover of The Decameron, Volume I
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Book cover of The Life of Dante
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019

Published in 1990: This book tells the life story of Dante, the poet and his work.
Book cover of Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 14, 2018

La protagonista, che è anche voce narrante, racconta la sua vicenda sentimentale: innamoratasi al primo sguardo di Panfilo, mercante fiorentino, vive una stagione di felicità interrotta però dalla partenza dell'amante per Firenze. La promessa infranta di Panfilo di un successivo ritorno a Napoli è...
Book cover of Sha’ana, the Sheik and Saladin
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014

Once a proud priestess, Sha’ana is now slave to a pitiless sheik known throughout the land for his ruthless sexual lusts and wickedly brutal perversions. When she refuses to let her luscious curves become subject to his cruel desires, he sentences her to public abuse that makes his original plans...
Book cover of The Decameron

The Decameron

(Volume II)

by Giovanni Boccaccio
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015

In this Volume-two, ”Endeth here the fourth day of the Decameron, beginneth the fifth, in which under the rule of Fiammetta discourse is had of good fortune befalling lovers after divers direful or disastrous adventures. ” All the east was white, nor any part of our hemisphere unillumined by the...
Book cover of Decameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 25, 2012

L’azione del decameron si svolge e si chiude nel giro di dieci giornate di racconto. Nella Firenze in preda alla peste del XIV° secolo si incontrano per caso nella chiesa di S.Maria Novella sette fanciulle e tre giovani uomini , che decidono di ritirarsi insieme in una villa dei vicini colli per...
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