by Giovanni Boccaccio · Grupo Anaya Publicaciones Generales · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420666914
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«El Decamerón, 1» is the classic work of medieval narrative by Giovanni Boccaccio, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (448 pages, in Spanish).
First volume of the Decameron, a collection of one hundred tales that Boccaccio groups in tens. The book offers a fresco of 14th-century Italy, with the Black Death as backdrop: moralistic stories, satires of customs, echoes of courtly love and a marked anticlericalism.
Translation by Esther Benítez, based on the Italian edition established by Vittore Branca. Published in 2007 in the El libro de bolsillo - Literatura collection; two-volume edition reproducing the complete text.
Aimed at readers of classic and historical fiction, as well as those who want to discover Boccaccio's 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.
