Tales of Firenzuola

Author

Agnolo Firenzuola

Original Work

Prose Writings

Translator

Eileen Gardiner

Language

English

Year

1987

Publisher

Italica Press

Country

United States

Pages

136

ISBN

9780934977043

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AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION of the ten extant stories offers delightful and realistic pictures of secular life in Tuscany during the Renaissance. They continued in the popular story-telling tradition of Boccaccio and contain the seeds of the Italian novel of the 16th century. They reflect the worldly realism of the town rather than the elevated idealism of the court. Full of sex, money, revenge and anti-clericalism, the Tales are a bridge in literary history from the medieval tales to the picaresque novel. Introduction, bibliography. Illustrated.— Google Books