La Fiammetta by Giovanni Boccaccio
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"La Fiammetta" by Giovanni Boccaccio is a novel written between 1343 and 1344. Told as a confessional monologue, it follows Lady Fiammetta as she recounts her passionate affair with Panfilo, a Florentine merchant. Set in Naples, the narrative explores her consuming jealousy and despair when he returns to Florence and she suspects he has taken another lover. Characterized as the first psychological novel in Western literature, it offers an intimate portrait of
obsessive love and emotional torment. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Brogan, James C. |
| Title | La Fiammetta |
| Note | Contains introduction, prologue, and chapter 1 only. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegia_di_Madonna_Fiammetta |
| Credits | Produced by Ted Garvin, Dave Morgan and PG Distributed Proofreaders |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 60.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 10006 |
| Release Date | Nov 1, 2003 |
| Last Update | Oct 28, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 393 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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