The Giovanni Boccaccio Page
( 1313-1375 )
Major Works
Italian Works
The Decameron (1349-1353). The English version of choice is possibly Decameron. The John Payne Translation, Revised and Annotated by Charles S. Singleton. Three volumes. California, 1982. But see also the more accessible versions by G.H. McWilliam (Penguin, 1995), Guido Waldman (Oxford, 1993) and Mark Musa and Peter Bondanella (Mentor,1982 ). See also the latter authors' Norton Critical Decameron, which includes 21 tales , selected criticism and other help.
Il Filostrato (1355). A Trojan war story used by Chaucer as a source for Troilus and Cressida. Translated by R.K. Gordon, in The Story of Troilus. Dent, 1934.
Il Filocolo (1336-1338).
Il Teseida (1339-1341).
Comedy of the Florentine Nymphs (1341-1342).
The Amorous Vision (1342-1343).
La Fiametta. (1344) Edited and translated by Mariangela Causa-Steindler and Thomas Mauch as The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta. Chicago, 1990.
The Nymphs of Fiesole (1346).
Life of Dante (1355?).
Giovanni Boccaccio and Pietro Aretino. The Earliest Lives of Dante.Introduction by Francesco Basetti-Sani. Ungar, 1963.
The Corbaccio (1355). Translated and edited by Anthony K. Cassell. Illinois, 1975.
Lectures on Dante's Comedy (1373).
Rhymes( -1364)
Latin Works
The Fates of Illustrious Men (1360).
Concerning Famous Women (1361). Translated, with an introduction and notes, by Guido A. Guarino. Rutgers, 1963.
Boccaccio on Poetry(1375?).In an English version with introductory essay and commentary by Charles G. Osgood. Princeton, 1930. Reprint by Library of Liberal Arts, 1956. The Preface and books 14 and 15 of Genealogy of the Gentile Gods.
About Boccaccio
The Decameron Web from Brown University. Has text, English translation and many helps.
Look at Sandro Botticelli's illustrations for story of Nastaglio degli Onesti. Day five, Story Eight of theDecameron.
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