by Juan Varela-Portas, Giovanni Boccaccio · Castalia Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497401074
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«El Decamerón. Diez cuentos» is a selection of stories by Giovanni Boccaccio and Juan Varela-Portas, published by Castalia Ediciones in paperback (182 pages, in Spanish).
Selection of one hundred tales from the Decameron, the masterpiece of Giovanni Boccaccio. Seven ladies and three young men, taking refuge in the countryside to escape the Florentine plague of 1348, gather for ten days to tell each other stories; each day, a king or queen of the group sets the theme for their tales, with a rich variety of tones and subjects.
Part of the Castalia Prima collection, number 28. Annotated edition with reading guide, bibliography and glossary.
Aimed at both students and those approaching medieval Italian literature for the first time.
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.
