by Giovanni Boccaccio · Ediciones Casset · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788487859243
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«Frailes, curas y monjas» is a selection of short stories by Giovanni Boccaccio, published by Ediciones Casset in paperback (127 pages, in Spanish).
A selection of stories from the Decameron featuring friars, priests and nuns, in which Boccaccio ironically portrays clerical life in 14th-century Italy. Amid love entanglements and hypocrisies, the tales combine satire and mischief, offering a critical view of the contradictions between religious morality and human desire.
It was published in 1992. It is a selection from the Decameron translated from Italian, within the Afrodita Collection. Direction was by Javier Parra and design by Federico del Barrio and Raul.
For adult readers interested in classic Italian narrative, clerical satire and erotic-toned tales.
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.
