The Decameron

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By (author): "Alison Pettit, Nickie Rainsford, Giovanni Boccaccio"
Genres:Fiction books  Classics books  Italy books  Historical Fiction books  Short Stories books  Literature books  School books  Medieval books  Italian Literature books  14th Century books  
Publish Date: 1353
The Decameron
ISBN962634380X
ISBN139789626343807
AsinThe Decameron
Original titleIl Decamerone
Here are 16 tales from one of the great works of the Middle Ages. Ten young people have fled for a while the terrible effects of the Black Death in Florence and, in an idyllic setting, tell a series of brilliant stories, by turns humorous, bawdy, tragic and provocative. This celebration of physical and sexual vitality is Boccaccio's answer to the sublime other-worldliness of Dante's Divine Comedy?