by Giovanni Boccaccio · Plutón Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788417477288
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Written in the last period of the Middle Ages, Giovanni Boccaccio's "Decameron" was the first great Italian work in prose, and also contributed to laying the foundations of the modern novel. It put aside the religious theme and the heroic characters that predominated at the time, to focus on profane themes causing much controversy and being censored even by the Inquisition. The work is composed of a collection of stories of varied origin, told by ten protagonists who tell a story each night while they take refuge in a villa fleeing the plague that devastates Florence. Each story exposes various aspects of human life with a satirical and exaggerated vision of the customs of that time. In this edition, the reader is presented with a selection of the best stories that make up this essential jewel of universal literature.
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". He was one of the most important figures in the European literary panorama of the fourteenth century. Some scholars define him as the greatest European prose writer of his time, a versatile writer who amalgamated different literary trends and genres, making them converge in original works, thanks to a creative activity exercised under the banner of experimentalism.
