| Tales from the Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Contributor(s): Boccaccio, Giovanni (Author), Aldington, Richard (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1432617893 ISBN-13: 9781432617899 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $48.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2005 Annotation: 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology - Fiction | Christian - General - Fiction | Religious - General |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.61 lbs) 384 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. |