| Tales from the Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Contributor(s): Boccaccio, Giovanni (Author), Aldington, Richard (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1162805102 ISBN-13: 9781162805108 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $34.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6" W x 9" (1.13 lbs) 384 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 1930. The Decameron is a work of broad-sweeping comic views. It was written by Giovanni Boccaccio, an Italian poet and scholar who raised vernacular literature to the status of the classics of antiquity and who prepared for the humanism of the Renaissance. The tales are set in 1348, the year of the Black Death. Florence is a dying, corrupt city, described plainly in all of its horrors. Seven ladies and three gentlemen meet in a church and decide to escape from the charnel house of reality by staying in the hills of Fiesole; there they pass the time telling stories for ten days. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. |