Description
by
Isaac Jaggard (Translator),
Giovanni Boccaccio (Author)
The Decameron is a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375). The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men sheltering in a secluded villa just outside Florence to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city.
Author Biography
Giovanni Boccaccio (16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist.
Number of Pages: 630Dimensions: 1.27 x 9.02 x 5.98 INPublication Date: October 20, 2017
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