Boccaccio, Giovanni 1313-1375

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio ( Book )
1,489 editions published between 1429 and 2013 in 11 languages and held by 11,460 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Set against the backdrop of the fourteenth-century Black Death, an anthology of one hundred interlinked tales presents a variety of works recounted by the citizens of Florence--nobles, knights, abbots, nuns, doctors, philosophers, students, peasants, pilgrims, thieves, and others--who have fled the city to escape the plague

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio ( Book )
128 editions published between 1886 and 2010 in English and Italian and held by 2,819 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
One hundred tales, told in days by seven ladies and three young men

Famous women by Giovanni Boccaccio ( Book )
15 editions published between 2001 and 2003 in English and Multiple languages and held by 1,024 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous Women, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted exclusively to women. The 106 women whose life stories make up this volume range from the exemplary to the notorious, from historical and mythological figures to Renaissance contemporaries. In the hands of a master storyteller, these brief biographies afford a fascinating glimpse of a moment in history when medieval attitudes toward women were beginning to give way to more modern views of their potential

The decameron : a new translation : 21 novelle, contemporary reactions, modern criticism by Giovanni Boccaccio ( Book )
5 editions published between 1977 and 2010 in English and held by 1,009 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A new translation of the fourteenth-century tales recounted by young citizens of Florence who have fled the city to escape the plague

Concerning famous women by Giovanni Boccaccio ( Book )
14 editions published between 1963 and 1987 in English and held by 874 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Short biographical sketches of 104 women of mythology, history and fantasy, written over 600 years ago, now translated into English

Boccaccio on poetry; being the preface and the fourteenth and fifteenth books of Boccaccio's Genealogia deorum gentilium in an English version with introductory essay and commentary by Giovanni Boccaccio ( Book )
12 editions published between 1930 and 1978 in English and held by 807 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Decameron; or, Ten days' entertainment by Giovanni Boccaccio ( Book )
141 editions published between 1741 and 2008 in English and Italian and held by 693 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Lydgate's Fall of Princes by John Lydgate ( Book )
27 editions published between 1923 and 1967 in English and English, Middle and held by 686 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The corbaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio ( Book )
4 editions published in 1975 in English and held by 675 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The nymph of Fiesole (Il ninfale fiesolano) by Giovanni Boccaccio ( Book )
13 editions published between 1960 and 1974 in English and held by 647 WorldCat member libraries worldwide