The Decameron

✍ Boccaccio, Giovanni 📂 Fiction 📅 2010;2009 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Everyman's Librar 🌐 English ⚖ 441 KB 👁 1 views

In the summer of 1348, with the plague ravaging Florence, ten young men and women take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselves with tales of love, death, and corruption, featuring a host of characters, from lascivious clergymen and mad kings to devious lovers and false miracle-mak

Decameron

✍ Giovanni Boccaccio 📂 Fiction 📅 2010;2009 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Everyman's Librar 🌐 en-US ⚖ 441 KB 👁 1 views

In the summer of 1348, with the plague ravaging Florence, ten young men and women take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselves with tales of love, death, and corruption, featuring a host of characters, from lascivious clergymen and mad kings to devious lovers and false miracle-mak

Decameron

✍ Giovanni Boccaccio 📂 Fiction 📅 1985 🏛 Mondadori 🌐 it-IT ⚖ 750 KB

The Decameron

✍ Giovanni Boccaccio 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 W. W. Norton & Company 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 494 KB 👁 1 views

**"Celebrated in the Renaissance as the foremost stylist of Italian prose, Boccaccio has seldom met his match in English translation...Wayne Rebhorn’s fluid and dynamic rendition hits the mark on every page." —William J. Kennedy, Cornell University** The year is 1348. The Black Death has begun to r

The Decameron

✍ Giovanni Boccaccio 📂 Fiction 📅 2003;2012 🏛 Penguin Classics;Proquest LLC 🌐 English ⚖ 478 KB

SUMMARY: Translated with an Introduction and Notes by G. H. McWilliam

The Decameron

✍ Giovanni Boccaccio 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 W. W. Norton & Company 🌐 English ⚖ 603 KB

"Rebhorn deserves our gratitude for an eminently persuasive translation. . . . I celebrate his accomplishment."--Edith GrossmanThe year is 1348. The Black Death has begun to ravage Europe. Ten young Florentines--seven women and three men--escape the plague-infested city and retreat to the countrysid

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