by Giovanni Boccaccio · Club Internacional del libro · tapa dura · ISBN 9788474612226
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«El Decamerón» is a collection of one hundred tales by Giovanni Boccaccio, published by Club Internacional del Libro in hardcover (380 pages, in Spanish).
Ten young people leave Florence stricken by the Black Death and take refuge in a villa, where each day one of them tells a story; after ten days they have told a hundred tales of love, fortune, wit and eroticism. Together they offer a vivid portrait of medieval Italian society.
Originally from the 14th century, this 1983 Spanish edition is part of the Grandes Genios de la Literatura Universal collection (no. 19), with guaflex binding and gilt decoration.
A reference work for readers of medieval classics and short fiction.
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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.
