by Giovanni Boccaccio · Club Internacional Del Libro · tapa dura · ISBN 9788440718471
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«Decamerón I y II» is the collection of one hundred tales by Giovanni Boccaccio, published by Club Internacional del Libro in two hardcover volumes.
A group of young people fleeing the plague in Florence passes the time telling one hundred stories. The collection offers a rich and varied view of medieval life, in which intelligence, love and fortune appear as central themes in many tales.
The work, originally published in 1353 as «Il Decamerone», appears in this 1990 edition and belongs to medieval Italian literature.
For readers of medieval Italian classics and story collections, with an interest in fourteenth-century short narrative.
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.
