These tales are translated from a variety of authors. The translator has been chiefly led to task by the hope of composing an entertaining volume out of materials not generally accessible. The works in which many of them are found, and indelicacy with which almost all collections of Italian tales are polluted, deservedly from general perusal. Such care has however, been employed in the following selection, and such liberties taken with the originals, that it is hoped this little book will escape the censure too justly cast upon Italian works of humour, in general-a censure which falls heavily upon many of the otherwise admirable tales of Boccaccio. Italian Tales: The TEeacher Taught The Unexpected Reply Who Am I? The Dead Rider The Skilfull Physician The Pomegranate Seed The Fatal Mistake The Dead Alive The False Champion The Merchant Of Venice There Is a Skeleton In Every House The Elopement The Friar Entrapped Antonio And Veronica Belphagor The Sleeping Draught The Counterparts..
- ISBN10 1304846237
- ISBN13 9781304846235
- Publish Date 6 February 2014
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format eBook
- Language English