by Giovanni Boccaccio · tapa dura · ISBN 9788474612240
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«El Decamerón» is the collection of one hundred tales by Giovanni Boccaccio published by Club Internacional del Libro in hardcover (700 pages, in Spanish).
The work is set in Florence during the Black Death of 1348: seven women and three men flee to a villa and take turns telling stories over ten days. They are one hundred tales of varied tone, from erotic to tragic, which often satirize medieval society and the Church. It is one of the great classics of Italian literature.
1983 edition in two volumes, from the Grandes Genios de la Literatura Universal collection.
For readers interested in medieval classics, short fiction, and Italian literature.
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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.
