by Giovanni Boccaccio · ESPASA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423917013
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«Decamerón» is the collection of one hundred tales by Giovanni Boccaccio, published by Espasa in paperback (339 pages, in Spanish).
Comprising one hundred stories, The Decameron brings together ten young people who, to escape the plague ravaging Florence, settle in the countryside and, over ten days, take turns telling tales. Among fables, pranks and amorous examples, the whole explores wit, fortune and the human condition with irony and refinement.
Edited by Anna Girardi, translated by Pilar Gómez Bedate, included in the Austral Collection with the «Nueva Edición Recomendada» badge.
Suitable for readers who want to discover a classic of Italian literature through short, varied tales.
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.
