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1348. The Black Death is sweeping through Europe. In Florence, plague has carried off one hundred thousand people. In their Tuscan villas, seven young women and three young men tell tales to recreate the world they have lost, weaving a rich tapestry of comedy, tragedy, ribaldry and farce.
Boccaccio's Decameron recasts the storystelling heritage of the ancient and medieval worlds into perennial forms that inspired writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare down to our own day. Boccaccio makes the incredible believable, with detail so sharp we can look straight into the lives of people who lived six hundred years ago. His Decameron hovers between the fading glories of an aristocratic past - the Crusades, the Angevins, the courts of France, the legendary East - and the colourful squalor of contemporary life, where wives deceive husbands, friars and monks pursue fleshly ends, and natural instincts fight for satisfactio..
目录
The Editor's Introduction
The Author's Preface
THE FIRST DAY" No set theme
Introduction
1 Saint Ciappelletto's Last Confession
2 Abraham goes to Rome
3 Saladin and the Jew
4 The monk, the abbot and the girl
5 The King of France and the Marquise
6 The simple man and the Inquisitor
7 Bergamino cures Can Grande of avarice
8 Guglielmo Borsiere shames Erminio dei Grimaldi
9 The King of Cyprus is stung into action
1O Alberto of Bologna and the young lady Conclusion
THE SECOND DAY" Joyful endings beyond all hopes
1 MarteUino pretends to be crippled
2 Rinaldo d'Asti is lodged for the night
3 Alessandro and the King's daughter
4 Landolfo Rufolo's shipwreck
5 Andreuccio goes to Naples
6 Madama Beritola marooned
7 Alatiel, the Sultan's daughter
8 The Count of Antwerp and his children
9 The wife of Bernabo vindicates her good name
10 The judge's wife and the pirate Conclusion
THE THIRD DAY: Desires fulfilled, lo..
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