by Giovanni Boccaccio · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420602769
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«El Decamerón, 1» is the first part of the hundred tales by Giovanni Boccaccio, published by Alianza in paperback (392 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Florence in 1348, during the Black Death, the work brings together a hundred stories that seven women and three men tell each other over ten days while taking refuge in a villa. Each day has a theme chosen by a king or queen, and the tales mix jokes, cunning, loves and tragic outcomes in a portrait of medieval society.
The edition belongs to Alianza's El Libro de Bolsillo (LB) collection; the «1» in the title indicates the first instalment of the work.
For readers of classic fiction interested in medieval narrative and tales of the Italian tradition.
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.
