Decameron

Mentioned in ?

References in classic literature ?

It is said that Chaucer borrowed the form of his famous tales from a book called The Decameron, written by an Italian poet named Boccaccio.

Perhaps he even met Boccaccio, and it is more than likely that he met Petrarch, another great Italian poet who also retold one of the tales of The Decameron. Several of the tales which Chaucer makes his people tell are founded on these tales.

View in context

Sir Patrick, deep in an old Venetian edition of The Decameron, found himself suddenly recalled from medieval Italy to modern England, by no less a person than Geoffrey Delamayn.

Having met the advance made to him, in those terms, he paused, expecting Geoffrey to leave him free to return to the Decameron. To his unutterable astonishment, Geoffrey suddenly stooped over him, and whispered in his ear, "I want a word in private with you."

Sir Patrick put back the Decameron; and bowed in freezing silence.

View in context

Some critics believe that her garden was the scene of The Decameron, which lends it an additional interest, does it not?"

View in context

This literary form--a collection of disconnected stories bound together in a fictitious framework--goes back almost to the beginning of literature itself; but Chaucer may well have been directly influenced by Boccaccio's famous book of prose tales, 'The Decameron' (Ten Days of Story-Telling).

View in context

The editorial emendations and paratexts, taken together, show us how contemporary conceptions of the integrity of the text intersect with a complex framed narrative such as the Decameron. In fact, it is Boccaccio's own deconstruction of the conventional structures of the text (as seen in his authorial paratexts) which provides the space for his English translator to rework and reshape it according to his own authorial impulses.

Paratexts and their functions in seventeenth-century English Decamerons

Blandeau (Nantes U., France) examines Paolo Pasolini's film depictions of Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, part of his Trilogy of Life from the early 1970s.

Pasolini, Chaucer and Boccaccio; two medieval texts and their translation to film

Manganelli's particular awareness of time has precedents in, among other sources, The Decameron and the twelfth-century, anonymously written Il Novellino.

Centuria: one hundred ouroboric novels

For an eyeshadow that mimics a bronzer, try NARS Cream Eyeshadow in Decameron, pounds 12.50 (020-7299 4999).

Tricks of the trade: Make-up to suit your sunny-day skin

Dictionary browser ?

Full browser ?