The Decameron; or Ten Days' Entertainment
by Giovanni Boccaccio
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition
- Seller
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Bristol, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside. They amuse themselves by each telling a story a day for the ten days they are destined to remain there - a hundred stories of love, adventure and surprising twists of fate. Less preoccupied with abstract concepts of morality or religion than earthly values, the tales range from the bawdy Peronella hiding her lover in a tub to Ser Cepperallo, who, despite his unholy effrontery, becomes a Saint. The result is a towering monument of European literature and a masterpiece of imaginative narrative.
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- Bookseller
- Dreadnought Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48886
- Title
- The Decameron; or Ten Days' Entertainment
- Author
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- Illustrator
- T. Stothard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Half Leather)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1872
- Keywords
- BZDB243 fiction, short stories, frame Fiction; Italy; Medieval 10th to 15thc; T. Stothard Unbranded Giovanni Boccaccio The Decameron; or Ten Days' Entertainment
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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