by Giovanni Boccaccio · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437623498
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The Decameron is a collection of one hundred stories written by Giovanni Boccaccio in the 14th century. Set in Florence during the Black Death, the work tells how ten young people, seven women and three men, flee the city to take refuge in a villa on the outskirts. To pass the time, each one tells a story per day for ten days, resulting in the hundred stories that make up the book. These stories cover a wide range of themes, from love and lust to intelligence and fortune, offering a rich and diverse vision of life in medieval Italy.
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.
