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• Title:[Decamerone. English]
  The Decameron : a new translation, contexts, criticism / Giovanni Boccaccio ; translated and edited by Wayne A. Rebhorn.
  
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• Author/Creator:Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Rebhorn, Wayne A., 1943- translator, editor.
  
• Published/Created:New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2016]
  

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  • Call Number: PQ4272.E5 A3613 2016
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Plague--Europe--History--Fiction.
  Storytelling--Fiction.
  
• Genre/Form: Fiction.
  History.
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:lvi, 494 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Norton critical edition.
  
• Summary:This volume presents fifty-five stories, newly translated, of the hundred novelle that comprise Boccaccios masterpiece. This Norton Critical Edition includes: Fifty-five judiciously chosen stories from Wayne A. Rebhorns translation of The Decameron ; Introductory materials and explanatory footnotes by Wayne A. Rebhorn, along with three maps ; Biographical works by Filippo Villani and Ludovico Dolce along with literary studies by Francesco Petrarca, Andreas Capellanus, and Boccaccio ; Eleven critical essays, including those by Giuseppe Mazzotta, Millicent Marcus, Teodolinda Barolini, Susanne L. Wofford, Luciano Rossi, and Richard Kuhns. -- Amazon.com.
  
• Notes:Translated from the Italian.
  Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9780393935622 paperback
  0393935620 paperback
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Preface
  Introduction
  Story 1 Ser Cepparello deceives a holy friar with a false confession and dies, and although he was one of the worst of men during his life, he is reputed after his death to be a saint and is called Saint Ciappelletto.
  Story 2 Abraham the Jew, urged on by Giannotto di Civign1, goes to the court of Rome, and after having seen the wickedness of the clergy, returns to Paris and becomes a Christian.
  Story 3 Melchisedech the Jew uses a story about three rings to avoid a very dangerous trap set for him by Saladin.
  Story 4 monk, having committed a sin deserving the gravest punishment, escapes paying any penalty for it by justly rebuking his Abbot for the same fault.
  Story 5 By means of a banquet consisting entirely of hens, plus a few sprightly little words, the Marchioness of Monferrato curbs the foolish love of the King of France.
  Story 7 With a story about Primasso and the Abbot of Cluny, Bergamino justly rebukes Messer Can della Scala for an unexpected fit of avarice.
  Conclusion
  Story 1 Pretending to be a cripple, Martellino makes it seem as though he is cured after having been placed on the body of Saint Arrigo. When his ruse is discovered, he is beaten and then arrested, and though in danger of being hanged, he gets off in the end.
  Story 2 After being robbed, Rinaldo d Asti turns up at Castel Guiglielmo, where he is given lodging by a widow, and then, after having recovered his possessions, returns home safe and sound.
  Story 4 Landolfo Rufolo is impoverished, becomes a pirate, and is shipwrecked after being captured by the Genoese. He escapes, however, on a chest filled with very precious jewels, is cared for by a woman on Corfu, and finally returns home a rich man.
  Story 5 Andreuccio da Perugia comes to buy horses in Naples where, during a single night, he is caught in three serious misadventures, manages to extricate himself from all of them, and returns home with a ruby.
  Story 7 Sultan of Babylon sends one of his daughters to be married to the King of Algarve, and in a series of misadventures spanning a period of four years, she passes through the hands of nine men in various places, until she is finally restored to her father as a virgin and goes off, as she was doing at the start, to marry the King of [ect.]
  Story 10 Paganino da Monaco abducts the wife of Messer Ricciardo di Chinzica, who, after finding out where she is, goes and befriends her abductor. When he asks Paganino to give her back, the latter agrees to do so, provided that she wants to go. She refuses to return to Messer Ricciardo, however, and after his death, becomes Paganino's [ect.]
  Conclusion
  Introduction
  Story 1 Masetto da Lamporecchio pretends he is a deaf-mute and becomes the gardener in a convent where the nuns all race one another to get to sleep with him.
  Story 2 groom sleeps with the wife of King Agilulf. When the King finds out about it, he says nothing, but tracks down the guilty party and shears off some of his hair. The shorn one then shears all the others and thus escapes a terrible fate.
  Story 8 Having consumed a certain powder, Ferondo is buried for dead, but the Abbot, who has been enjoying his wife, removes him from his tomb, imprisons him, and makes him believe he is in Purgatory, until he is finally resuscitated and then raises as his own a child his wife had with the Abbot.
  Story 10 Alibech becomes a recluse, and Rustico, a monk, teaches her how to put the Devil back in Hell. She is then led away from there and becomes the wife of Neerbale.
  Conclusion
  Introduction
  Story 1 Tancredi, Prince of Salerno, kills his daughter's lover and sends her his heart in a golden chalice. Sprinkling it with poison, she drinks it down and thus dies.
  Story 2 Frate Alberto, having given a lady to understand that the Angel Gabriel is in love with her, assumes the angel's form himself and sleeps with her on numerous occasions, until, scared by her relatives, he throws himself out of her house and takes refuge in that of a poor man. The next day the latter leads him to the piazza dressed up like a wild man, where he is recognized and apprehended by his fellow friars who proceed to incarcerate [ect.]
  Story 5 After Lisabetta's brothers kill her lover, he appears to her in a dream and shows her where he is buried. She secretly digs up his head and puts it in a pot of basil, weeping over it for hours every day, but when her brothers take it away from her, shortly afterward she herself dies of grief.
  Story 9 Messer Guiglielmo Rossiglione slays his wife's lover, Messer Guiglielmo Guardastagno, and gives her his heart to eat, but when she finds out about it later, she throws herself down to the ground from a high window, and after her death, is buried with her beloved.
  Story 1 Cimone acquires wisdom through his love for his lady Efigenia, whom he then abducts at sea. Imprisoned in Rhodes, he is freed by Lisimaco, with whom he once again abducts both Efigenia and Cassandrea during their wedding. They then flee with their ladies to Crete, where they get married, after which they are summoned to come back to their homes with their [ect.]
  Story 3 Fleeing with Agnolella, Pietro Boccamazza runs into a gang of thieves, and while the girl escapes through a forest and is led to a castle, Pietro is captured by them. He manages to get out of their clutches, however, and after one or two more adventures, he happens upon the castle where Agnolella is staying, gets married to her, and returns with her to [ect.]
  Story 4 Ricciardo Manardi is discovered by Messer Lizio da Valbona with his daughter, whom Ricciardo marries, thus remaining on good terms with her father.
  Story 8 In love with a lady from the Traversari family, Nastagio degli Onesti spends all his wealth without obtaining her love in return. At the urging of his friends and family, he goes away to Chiassi where he sees a young woman being hunted down and killed by a knight and devoured by two dogs. Nastagio then invites his relations as well as his beloved to a banquet where she sees that same young woman being torn apart and, fearing a similar fate, accepts Nastagio as her [ect.]
  Story 9 In love with a lady who does not return his affection, Federigo degli Alberighi consumes his fortune, spending it all on courting her, until the only thing he has left is a single falcon. When she comes to call on him at his house, he serves it to her to eat because he has nothing else to offer her. Upon discovering what he has done, she has a change of heart, takes him as her husband, and makes him a rich [ect.]
  Story 10 After Pietro di Vinciolo goes out to have supper, his wife invites a young man to come to her house, but hides him underneath a chicken coop when her husband returns. Pietro tells her that while he was eating at Ercolano's place, they discovered a young man who had been brought there by his wife. Pietro's wife criticizes her severely, but then an ass unfortunately steps on the fingers of the young man underneath the coop, and when he screams, Pietro runs out and sees him, thus discovering his wife's deception. In the end, however, because of his own perversion, he reaches an understanding with [ect.]
  Introduction
  Story 1 knight offers Madonna Oretta a horseback ride in the form of a story, but he tells it in so disorderly a fashion that she begs him to set her down on foot.
  Story 2 By means of a single phrase, Cisti the baker makes Messer Geri Spina see how he has made an inappropriate request.
  Story 4 Chichibio, Currado Gianfigliazzi's cook, saves himself by means of a prompt retort that converts his master's anger into laughter, allowing him to escape the unpleasant fate with which Currado had threatened him.
  Story 5 Messer Forese da Rabatta and Master Giotto the painter, returning from Mugello, cleverly mock one another's disreputable appearance.
  Story 7 When Madonna Filippa's husband discovers her with a lover, she is called before a judge, but secures her freedom by means of a prompt and amusing reply, while also getting the statute changed at the same time.
  Story 9 With a clever quip, Guido Cavalcanti justly puts down a group of Florentine gentlemen who had taken him by surprise.
  Story 10 Frate Cipolla promises a group of peasants that he will show them a feather belonging to the Angel Gabriel, but when he finds lumps of coal in its place, he declares that they were the ones used to roast Saint Lawrence.
  Conclusion
  Story 1 Gianni Lotteringhi hears a knocking at his door during the night and awakens his wife. She makes him believe it is the bogeyman, and after they go and exorcise it with a prayer, the knocking stops.
  Story 2 When her husband returns home unexpectedly, Peronella stashes her lover in a barrel. Her husband has sold it, but she says that she herself had already done so to a man who had climbed inside to see if it was in good condition. Leaping out of the barrel, the lover gets the husband to scrape it out and then to carry it back home for [ect.]
  Story 4 Tofano locks his wife out of the house one night, and when she cannot get back in despite all her pleading with him, she pretends to throw herself down a well, but drops a large rock into it instead. Tofano comes out of the house and rushes over to the spot, at which point she slips back inside, locks him out, and screams insults at [ect.]
  Story 5 Disguised as a priest, a jealous man hears his wife's confession and is given to understand that she is in love with a priest who comes to see her every night. Then, while her husband is secretly keeping watch by the front door, the wife has her lover come to her across the roof and passes the time with [ect.]
  Contents note continued: Story 8 man becomes jealous of his wife when he discovers that she has been tying a piece of string to her toe at night so that she will know when her lover has arrived. While her husband is off pursuing him, the lady gets another woman to take her place in bed. The husband beats the woman, and having cut off some of her hair, goes to fetch his wife's brothers, but when they discover that his story is untrue, they direct a stream of insults at [ect.]
  Story 9 Nicostrato's wife, Lidia, is in love with Pirro, who asks her to do three things to persuade him that she is sincere, and not only does she do all of them, but in addition, she makes love to him while Nicostrato is watching and gets her husband to believe that what he saw was unreal.
  Story 3 Calandrino, Bruno, and Buffalmacco go down along the banks of the Mugnone in search of the heliotrope. Believing he has found it, Calandrino returns home with a load of stones, and when his wife scolds him, he gets angry and beats her. Finally, he tells his friends the story, which they know better than he [ect.]
  Story 5 Three young men pull down the breeches of a judge from The Marches while he is sitting on the bench and administering justice in Florence.
  Story 6 Bruno and Buffalmacco steal a pig from Calandrino, and then, pretending to help him recover it, they get him to undergo a test involving ginger pills and Vernaccia wine. They give him two of the pills, one after the other, consisting of dog ginger seasoned with aloes, which make it appear as though he himself had stolen it. Finally, they force him to pay them blackmail if he does not want them to tell his wife about [ect.]
  Story 7 scholar falls for a widow who is in love with someone else and gets the scholar to spend a winter's night waiting for her in the snow. Later on he persuades her to follow his counsel and spend an entire day in the middle of July, naked atop a tower, exposed to flies and gadflies and the sun.
  Story 9 Eager to be made a member of a company of privateers, Master Simone, a physician, is persuaded by Bruno and Buffalmacco to go one night to a certain spot, where he is thrown into a ditch by Buffalmacco and left to wallow in filth.
  Introduction
  Story 2 Arising hurriedly in the dark, an Abbess rushes out to catch one of her nuns who was reported to be in bed with her lover, but the Abbess herself was with a priest at the time and places his breeches on her head, thinking she is putting her veils there, with the result that when the accused nun sees them and points them out to the Abbess, she is acquitted and from then on is able to spend time with her lover at her [ect.]
  Story 3 Egged on by Bruno, Buffalmacco, and Nello, Master Simone makes Calandrino believe he is pregnant. Calandrino then gives them all capons and money in return for medicine, and he is cured without having to give birth.
  Story 5 When Calandrino falls in love with a young woman, Bruno makes a magic scroll for him, with which he no sooner touches her than she goes off with him. Then, however, he gets caught by his wife and finds himself in a very serious and unpleasant predicament.
  Story 6 Two young men find lodging overnight, and while one of them goes to bed with their host's daughter, the host's wife inadvertently sleeps with the other. Then the youth who was with the daughter gets into bed with her father, and thinking he is talking to his companion, tells him everything. A great commotion ensues, at which point the wife, realizing her mistake, gets into bed with her daughter and by means of a few choice words restores the [ect.]
  Story 10 Donno Gianni is prevailed upon by compar Pietro to use an incantation in order to turn his wife into a mare, but when the priest comes to stick on the tail, compar Pietro says he did not want one and completely ruins the spell.
  Conclusion
  Story 3 Envious of Nathan's reputation for courtesy, Mithridanes sets out to murder him. After accidentally coming across him without recognizing him, and being informed by him as to how he might do the deed, he finds him, just as Nathan had arranged it, in a little wood. When Mithridanes realizes who it is, he is filled with shame and becomes Nathan's [ect.]
  Story 4 Messer Gentile de' Carisendi comes from Modena and takes the lady he loves out of the tomb in which she had been buried for dead. After she is revived and gives birth to a male child, Messer Gentile restores both her and her little boy to Niccoluccio Caccianemico, her husband.
  Story 6 victorious King Charles the Old, having fallen in love with a young girl, feels shame over his foolish fancy and arranges honorable marriages for her and her sister.
  Story 7 Upon learning that a young woman named Lisa had become ill because of her fervent love for him, King Peter goes to comfort her, after which he weds her to a young nobleman, and having kissed her on the brow, from then on always calls himself her knight.
  Story 9 Disguised as a merchant, Saladin is honorably entertained by Messer Torello, who, when a Crusade is launched, establishes a time period for his wife to wait before she remarries. He is taken prisoner, but because of his skill in training falcons, he comes to the attention of the Sultan, who recognizes him, reveals himself in turn, and entertains him lavishly. Having fallen ill, Messer Torello is transported by magic in a single night to Pavia, where his wife's second marriage is about to be celebrated. She recognizes him, and he then returns with her to his [ect.]
  Story 10 Induced by the entreaties of his vassals to take a wife, the Marquis of Saluzzo, wanting to choose one his own way, selects the daughter of a peasant. After he has had two children with her, he makes it look to her as though they have been put to death. Later on, pretending to have grown weary of her, he claims he has married another woman and arranges to have his own daughter brought home as though she were his bride, meanwhile having turned his wife out of doors wearing nothing but her shift. On finding that she has borne everything with patience, however, he takes her back home again, dearer to him than ever, shows her their grown-up children, and honors her as Marchioness and causes everyone else to do so as [ect.]
  Conclusion
  From The Life of Giovanni Boccaccio / Filippo Villani
  Description of the Life of Messer Giovanni Boccaccio / Ludovico Dolce
  On Boccaccio's Decameron and the Story of Griselda / Francesco Petrarca
  From On Love / Andreas Capellanus
  From On Poetry / Giovanni Boccaccio
  From The Decameron: The Marginality of Literature / Giuseppe Mazzotta
  From Literature and Falsehood / Guido Almansi
  From Seduction by Silence: A Gloss on the Tales of Masetto (Decameron III, 1) and Alatiel (Decameron II, 7) / Millicent Marcus
  From Painters at Play on the Judgment Day (Decameron VIII, 9) / Victoria Kirkham
  From The Wheel of the Decameron / Teodolinda Barolini
  From Pyrrhus' Rules: Playing with Power [in Boccaccio's Decameron] / Albert Russell Ascoli
  Social Aesthetics of Rape: Closural Violence in Boccaccio / Susanne L. Wofford
  From Men, Women, and Figurative Language in the Decameron / Marilyn Migiel
  From The Decameron as Macrotext: The Problem of the Frame / Michelangelo Picone
  From The Mask of Loving Magnificence: The Tenth Day / Luciano Rossi
  From Reflections on the Metaphoric Power of Metamorphosis / Richard Kuhns.