1981, ISBN: 9780670177356

New York, The Viking Press, VIII, 392 S. / p. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag / Cloth with dustjacket. Umschlag leicht berieben und bestoßen, innen gut und sauber / Cover slightly rubbe… Mehr…

New York, The Viking Press, VIII, 392 S. / p. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag / Cloth with dustjacket. Umschlag leicht berieben und bestoßen, innen gut und sauber / Cover slightly rubbed and bumped, inside good and clean - Giovanni Boccaccio ( 1313 - 1375 ) is inarguably a giant of world literature, and yet his life and even his works - aside from the enduring and irrepressible Decameron - are almost unknown to modern readers. Now Thomas G. Bergin, a leading American scholar in the literature of the Italian Renaissance, brilliantly fills this gap with the first biographical and full critical study to appear in English in half a century. -- With clarity and concision Professor Bergin surveys Boccaccio?s life and times, from his birth in Certaldo near Florence to his service in the glamorous court of King Robert of Naples, to his famous love-at-first-sight enthrallment with his ?Fiammetta? ( so like that of his revered Dante and Beatrice ) , to his lifelong friendship with Petrarch. -- What few readers today realize is the sheer extent of Boccaccio?s surviving canon, and Professor Bergin?s study offers superb and entertaining exegeses of these richly various works - poetic, historical, philosophical, mythological, romantic, and realistic - crowned by the masterpiece of the Decameron. Set in the context of the calamitous 14th century, this life and literary overview opens up to the general reader a whole new window on the world of a writer who, with Petrarch and Dante, stands as the immortal embodiment of the Renaissance. ISBN 9780670177356Literaturwissenschaft 1981, [PU: Viking Press]<

1981, ISBN: 9780670177356

Viking Adult, Hardcover, 392 Seiten, Publiziert: 1981-11-24T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 9.07 kg, Verkaufsrang: 4265093, Subjects, Books, Viking Adult, 1981

1981, ISBN: 9780670177356

New York: Viking Press, 1981. viii, 391p., dj., Viking Press, 1981, 0