{"product_id":"italian-renaissance-tales-p-b-w3","title":"Anthony Mortimer: Italian Renaissance Tales (Oxford World's Classics) [2019] paperback","description":"'Thus she was decapitated, and this was the end to which she was brought by her unbridled lusts.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 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\u003cbr\u003eselection includes tales that have provided sources for Chaucer, Shakespeare, Webster, Marston, Dryden, Byron and Keats.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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","brand":"Oxford","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44231753793826,"sku":"9780198794967","price":12.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/oxford-anthony-mortimer-italian-renaissance-tales-oxford-world-s-classics-2019-paperback-9780198794967-58500803035475.jpg?v=1727713572","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/italian-renaissance-tales-p-b-w3","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}