by Giovanni Boccaccio · Altaya · tapa dura · ISBN 9788448703370
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The Decameron is a collection of 100 stories written by Giovanni Boccaccio in the 14th century. This edition, published by Altaya in 1996, corresponds to volume I of the work. The stories cover a wide range of themes, from love and lust to wit and fortune, and are set in Florence during the time of the Black Death. The work is a classic of world literature and an important source of information about the society and culture of the Italian Renaissance.
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.
