Cover of The Decameron

The Decameron

by Unknown Author

416 pages1968DentISBN 9780460008457

Publication Details

Publisher
Dent
Published
1968
Pages
416
ISBN
9780460008457

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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