{"product_id":"italian-renaissance-tales","title":"Italian Renaissance Tales","description":"''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","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57818392559951,"sku":"9780198794967","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/ef40939d7c974bd1984eb6bb21d8fb429780198794967_1.jpg?v=1789499911","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/italian-renaissance-tales","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}