The Decameron
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
In the shadow of the Black Death that devastated fourteenth-century Florence, ten young Florentines flee the plague-ridden city and retreat to the Tuscan countryside, where they pass ten days entertaining one another with one hundred stories of love, wit, tragedy, and human folly. Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, written between 1348 and 1353, stands as one of the supreme masterworks of medieval European literature — a richly layered tapestry of tales that ranges from bawdy comedy and sharp social satire to profound meditations on fate, fortune, and the resilience of the human spirit. Boccaccio's prose style — fluid, elegant, and deceptively conversational — anticipates the Renaissance humanism that would soon transform Western thought, and his storytelling framework would go on to inspire Chaucer, Shakespeare, and countless others across the centuries. This Franklin Library edition, translated by the distinguished scholar G. H. McWilliam and illustrated with the woodcuts of José Narro, presents The Decameron in its full, unabridged splendour, honouring the text's irreverent charm and moral complexity in equal measure. For readers who have yet to encounter Boccaccio's boundless world, be warned: once you enter the garden where these ten narrators hold court, you may never wish to leave.
Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
In the shadow of the Black Death that devastated fourteenth-century Florence, ten young Florentines flee the plague-ridden city and retreat to the Tuscan countryside, where they pass ten days entertaining one another with one hundred stories of love, wit, tragedy, and human folly. Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, written between 1348 and 1353, stands as one of the supreme masterworks of medieval European literature — a richly layered tapestry of tales that ranges from bawdy comedy and sharp social satire to profound meditations on fate, fortune, and the resilience of the human spirit. Boccaccio's prose style — fluid, elegant, and deceptively conversational — anticipates the Renaissance humanism that would soon transform Western thought, and his storytelling framework would go on to inspire Chaucer, Shakespeare, and countless others across the centuries. This Franklin Library edition, translated by the distinguished scholar G. H. McWilliam and illustrated with the woodcuts of José Narro, presents The Decameron in its full, unabridged splendour, honouring the text's irreverent charm and moral complexity in equal measure. For readers who have yet to encounter Boccaccio's boundless world, be warned: once you enter the garden where these ten narrators hold court, you may never wish to leave.