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The Decameron
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The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio
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?The?Decameron?has had numerous English translations, most of them bowdlerized or reliant on corrupt texts. The challenge is to move gracefully between the widely varying idioms employed for different tales and Rebhorn is notably successful in handling this, avoiding both an excess of slack colloquialism and the pish-tush-forsooth faux-antique of earlier renderings. The achievement genuinely honors its original.?

?JONATHAN KEATES,?The Telegraph

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Country
United States
Date
8 December 2020
Pages
640
ISBN
9780393427882

?The?Decameron?has had numerous English translations, most of them bowdlerized or reliant on corrupt texts. The challenge is to move gracefully between the widely varying idioms employed for different tales and Rebhorn is notably successful in handling this, avoiding both an excess of slack colloquialism and the pish-tush-forsooth faux-antique of earlier renderings. The achievement genuinely honors its original.?

?JONATHAN KEATES,?The Telegraph

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Country
United States
Date
8 December 2020
Pages
640
ISBN
9780393427882

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