The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio with Guido Waldman (Translator), Jonathan Usher (Contributor)

737 pages first pub 1351 (view editions)

fiction classics literary short stories adventurous funny slow-paced
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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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