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    A Study Guide for Giovanni Boccaccio's "Federigo's Falcon"
    A Study Guide for Giovanni Boccaccio's "Federigo's Falcon"
    A Study Guide for Giovanni Boccaccio's "Federigo's Falcon"
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    A Study Guide for Giovanni Boccaccio's "Federigo's Falcon"

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    A Study Guide for Giovanni Boccaccio's "Federigo's Falcon," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 15, 2016
    ISBN9781535823210
    A Study Guide for Giovanni Boccaccio's "Federigo's Falcon"

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      A Study Guide for Giovanni Boccaccio's "Federigo's Falcon" - Gale

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      Federigo's Falcon

      Giovanni Boccaccio

      1353

      Introduction

      In the late 1340s, after the Black Death had decimated Florence, Italy, Giovanni Boccaccio began writing a collection of short stories called the Decameron, a title that means ten days. The stories are introduced by a narrator who describes how these tales were told by seven young women and three young men who had fled the plague and were staying in a villa in the countryside. According to Boccaccio's introduction to the work, the ten days of the title refers to the ten days during which the young men and women told their stories. The story Federigo's Falcon, also known as The Falcon, The Ninth Story of the Fifth Day of the Decameron, The Tale of the Falcon, as well as several other translated titles, is the ninth story told on the fifth day. The story concerns Federigo's love for Giovanna. Federigo squanders his fortune, while Giovanna, who is married to another man, ignores his advances. As the years pass, Giovanna's husband dies and her son grows ill. Federigo, now impoverished, owns nothing save his beloved pet falcon, a bird Giovanna's sick child covets. Believing that her son's spirits would improve and he would become well if only he could have Federigo's falcon, Giovanna visits the poor Federigo, who still loves her. Embarrassed that he has nothing to offer Giovanna, Federigo prepares his falcon as a feast for Giovanna. In the end, Federigo's gesture moves Giovanna to care for him. A tale of love and grief, Federigo's Falcon is one of the more chaste tales in the Decameron and features characters who overcome challenges and find happiness with one another.

      It is believed that the stories in Boccaccio's Decameron were in circulation before the final version of the work was completed in 1353. The earliest English translation of the work was published in 1886 by John Payne. Federigo's Falcon is available in a 2004 publication of Decameron by Wordsworth. In addition, Federigo's Falcon is also available in a smaller collection of Boccaccio's short stories, Federigo's Falcon and Other Tales, published by Fredonia Books in 2003.

      Author Biography

      Giovanni Boccaccio was born either in June or July 1313 in the region of Tuscany in Italy. The city of his birth is disputed but thought to be either Certaldo

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