The Decameron (Hardcover)

With a new foreword. Written in the fourteenth century by Italian author, poet and scholar Giovanni Boccaccio, the Decameron contains stories told by ten young Florentines who have fled the city to escape the Plague. Presented within the sophisticated structure of a surrounding frame story, the one hundred allegorical tales are shared through the voices of these people as they spend their nights regaling the company with tales intended to guide and comfort, from the erotic, sensual, and bawdy to the intellectual, philosophical and tragic. The work’s fundamental purpose is one of ethical instruction through the means of beautiful and entertaining prose, touching on themes of morality, fortune, human will, wit, virtue, female agency, and love won and lost. This is Boccaccio's masterpiece and is generally viewed as the work that confirmed his reputation as the founder of Italian prose literature. It is also one of the world's great literary masterpieces.

General

Imprint:	Flame Tree Publishing Co Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Gothic Fantasy
Release date:	May 2023
First published:	2018
Authors:	Giovanni Boccaccio
Foreword by:	Susanna Barsella
Dimensions:	234 x 153 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	480
ISBN-13:	978-1-80417-344-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General Books > Social sciences > General
LSN:	1-80417-344-4
Barcode:	9781804173442

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