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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

The Decameron

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Paperback / softback by Giovanni Boccaccio , Wayne A. Rebhorn

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“The Decameron has had numerous English translations, most of them bowdlerized or reliant on corrupt texts. The challenge is to... Read more

    Publisher: WW Norton & Co
    Publication Date: 08/12/2020
    ISBN13: 9780393427882, 978-0393427882
    ISBN10: 0393427889

    Number of Pages: 640

    Fiction , Classics

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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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