- Hardcover: 278 pages
- Publisher: Marsilio Publishers (1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1568860013
- ISBN-13: 978-1568860015
- Product Dimensions: 21.7 x 14.7 x 2.7 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,539,229 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Delightful tales, 13 July 2011
By Henry Cohen - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: An Italian Renaissance Sextet: Six Tales in Historical Context (Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library) (Hardcover)
It is unfortunate that this book, first published in 1994, has had no prior reader reviews, because that suggests that it has had few readers. Its six tales from 15th-century Italy are delightful, if forgettable; they are light, like those in Boccaccio's Decameron. The essays by Lauro Martines that follow each one places the stories in their historical context, and are easy to read.
The first story, "Ricciarda," is about a young women who is so good in bed on her wedding night that her husband wrongly concludes that she is not a virgin. The second, "Scopone," is about "a peasant of uncouth appearance: miserly, loutish, ignorant, ungrateful," who gets his comeuppance. The third, "Friar and Priest," is described in the first editorial review, above. The fourth, "Bianco Alfani," is about a prison warden who is tricked into believing that he has been elected captain of the guard. The fifth, "Giacoppo," by Lorenzo de' Medici, involves one man tricking another so that the first may sleep with the wife of the second. The sixth, "The Fat Woodcarver," is yet another tale of tricking someone, in this case tricking a man into believing that he is another man.
The trickery in these tales were, in Renaissance Italy, considered to be hilariously funny, whereas today, they seem cruel. Lauro Martines discusses this change in attitude.
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