{"product_id":"italian-renaissance-tales-paperback","title":"Italian Renaissance Tales - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnthony Mortimer\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Thus she was decapitated, and this was the end to which she was brought by her unbridled lusts.'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor over two centuries after Boccaccio's groundbreaking \u003cem\u003eDecameron\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 and shrewd craftsmen, frustrated wives, libidinous friars, ill-fated lovers, and vengeful nobles. These works had a considerable impact in English, and the selection includes tales that have provided sources for Chaucer, Shakespeare, Webster, Marston, Dryden, Byron and Keats. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe typical \u003cem\u003enovella\u003c\/em\u003e is situated in a precise time and place and features people who either existed historically or are presumed to have done so. The subject-matter, whether ribald or sentimental, comic or tragic, often reflects the social and economic conditions of its age and thus the \u003cem\u003enovella\u003c\/em\u003e has been seen as a crucial stage in the development of fictional realism and the emergence of the novel\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnthony Mortimer is Emeritus Professor at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and also taught for many years at the University of Geneva. In addition to his scholarly work on English Renaissance Poetry, he has produced a series of verse translations: Dante (\u003cem\u003ethe Vita Nuova\u003c\/em\u003e), Cavalcanti, Petrarch, Michelangelo, Angelus Silesius, Villon, Baudelaire, and \u003cem\u003eThe Song of Roland\u003c\/em\u003e. His version of Luigi Pirandello's \u003cem\u003eThree Plays\u003c\/em\u003e was published in the Oxford World's Classics in 2014.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753966305568,"sku":"9780198794967","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f22708780c5bf0a028776027f2b624c1.webp?v=1780030475","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/italian-renaissance-tales-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}