Tales from the Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Richard Aldington, Giovanni Boccaccio

Tales from the Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

Richard Aldington, Giovanni Boccaccio

384 pages first pub 1353 (editions)

fiction classics short stories reflective slow-paced

Description

1930. The Decameron is a work of broad-sweeping comic views. It was written by Giovanni Boccaccio, an Italian poet and scholar who raised vernacular literature to the status of the classics of antiquity and who prepared for the humanism of the Ren...

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