{"product_id":"9780198794967-italian-renaissance-tales","title":"Oxford University Press - Italian Renaissance Tales - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: Thus she was decapitated and this was the end to which she was brought by her unbridled lusts. For over two centuries after Boccaccio's groundbreaking Decameron the Italian novella exercised a crucial influence over European prose fiction. With thirty - nine stories by nineteen authors many translated for the first time this anthology presents tales from the whole genre and period. Here we meet a rich cast of humble peasants and shrewd craftsmen frustrated wives libidinous friars ill - fated lovers and vengeful nobles. These works had a considerable impact in English and the selection includes tales that have provided sources for Chaucer Shakespeare Webster Marston Dryden Byron and Keats. The typical novella is situated in a precise time and place and features people who either existed historically or are presumed to have done so. The subject - matter whether ribald or sentimental comic or tragic often reflects the social and economic conditions of its age and thus the novella has been seen as a crucial stage in the development of fictional realism and the emergence of the novel\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Italian Renaissance Tales\u003cbr\u003e\nBrand: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780198794967\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 384 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 1\/1\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\nSeries: Oxford World's Classics\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Fiction In Translation","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49592303059249,"sku":"IN-G-9780198794967","price":12.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9780198794967.jpg?v=1754873766","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780198794967-italian-renaissance-tales","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}