The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio with Guido Waldman (Translator)

698 pages paperback 1351

202 editions

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The Decameron (c.1351) was written in the wake of the Black Death, a shattering epidemic which had shaken Florence's confident entrepreneurial society to its core. In a country villa outside the city, ten young noble men and women who have escaped...

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