The Decameron, The Norton Library Refugees & political asylum Knightsbridge

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It sounds too outrageous to be true - except it is

The poems in The Upstate arise from moments of darkness and desperation

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Housley steers readers through the key historical debates

The Decameron, The Norton Library Refugees & political asylum Knightsbridge? The? Decameron? has had numerous English translations, most of them bowdlerized or reliant on corrupt texts. The challenge is to move gracefully between the widely varying idioms employed for different tales and Rebhorn is notably successful in handling this, avoiding both an excess of slack colloquialism and the pish tush forsooth faux antique of earlier renderings. The achievement genuinely honors its original.? ? JONATHAN KEATES,? The Telegraph