by Giovanni Boccaccio · Bruguera · tapa dura · ISBN 9788402054821
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The Decameron is a collection of 100 stories written by Giovanni Boccaccio in the 14th century. Set in Florence during the Black Death, the work tells the stories that ten young people tell to entertain themselves while taking refuge in a villa outside the city. The stories cover a wide range of themes, from love and lust to wit and fortune, offering a rich and diverse view 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.
