by Giovanni Boccaccio · Edimat Libros · tapa dura · ISBN 9788495002983
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«El Decamerón» is the collection of one hundred tales by Giovanni Boccaccio, published by Edimat Libros in hardcover (523 pages, in Spanish).
A group of ten young people retreat to the outskirts of Florence to escape the plague; over ten days, each of them tells a story every day, until one hundred tales are completed. Boccaccio portrays clerics, nobles, merchants and peasants with irony, offering a varied fresco of fourteenth-century society.
The work, whose original title is Il Decamerone, was composed between 1349 and 1351. This edition dates from 2000. ISBN 84-95002-98-1.
For those interested in medieval classics, Italian literature and short narrative with irony and satire.
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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.
