Book Review

Introduction3

Discussion3

Plot and Characters4

Themes4

Critical Review4

Editorial Procedures6

Conclusion7

References8

Book Review

Introduction

The Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio is basically an Italian compendium of tales which have been composed in ancient times between the span of 1348 and 1353. It is considered as a master piece of the Western literature with hundred tales. These are the stories which are told by so many narrators who have been fled the plague-ridden in the great US city of Florence where there were country homes of their host located. In this particular effort made Boccaccio has departed from the idealisms which have actually brought the literature to the same realism which were part of the Italian painting in 14th century. This paper is a critical review of the edition by Thomas G. Bergin. Here this later edition will be criticized by involving various other elements like description of the editor of the particular edition produced. Stakeholders of the effort made, editorial procedures used and the ways in which the change has occurred through the criticizing element.

Discussion

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio is a immensely acclaimed piece of work. This particular Bergin has encountered a huge amount of difficulty when it comes on making an editorial version of such a popular piece of work. After so many years The Decameron is a frequently heard piece of literature. The whole effort he has made in order to be making this particular thought a reality has been involved with occasional writings in the form of literary critic.

Plot and Characters

The very basic element were the humorous French tales which used to be popular in Middle Ages, Decameron have seven female and three male characters which are hoping of escaping the Black Plagues in the year 1348. They all retreat to hills of Fiesole which are above Florence; this is where they have told one another so many stories which were dealing with diverse topics like love, human will and human intelligence, right before their return to city. All the stories have further so many other characters associated with them, throughout the paper introductions of first and fourth days, and the epilogue is what has lend a sense of thematic and stylistic unity which appeared in orderly manner.

Themes

Decameron deals with the struggles which are between life and death and so many other multiple ways which are asserted during the human life, no matter what are the conventional moral attitudes as well as beliefs. The core theme of Decameron brigade of so many young individuals which have abandoned plague-infested in their city and death was ruling and only way to live was to suffer and strife all the consequences associated with the Black Plague. They were leading to Eden of the countryside; this will be where they were hopeful of a formation of a harmonious society. Furthermore, the themes which were assigned in the series of stories of each day also reflect joyful as well as grim aspects which are related to the human struggles which are for attaining pleasure and also for ...