About this book
Contains extracts from fourteenth-century author Giovanni Boccaccio's "Decameron," a collection of often bawdy tales of love, lust, and adventure told by ten young Florentines to pass the time while hiding out from the Black Death in the countryside.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Published
- 2007
- Pages
- 119
- ISBN
- 9780141032788
About Unknown Author
Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was sometimes simply known as "the Certaldese" and one of the most important figures in the European literary panorama of the fourteenth century.
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