The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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"The Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio is a collection of one hundred short stories consisting of ten stories each of ten days. This book, written by the Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio at the end of the 14th century, is considered a masterpiece of world literature. Each novella reveals the lives, moral principles, love and humor of its characters during the plague epidemic in medieval Europe. The book "Decameron" depicts the life and customs of Italian society of that period, the vulnerability of man to the trials of fate, as well as moral and ethical questions that remain relevant even today.
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- Language
- English
- Release date
- 2007-12-03
- Title
- The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
- Translator
- John Payne
- Subject
- Allegories
Frame-stories
PQ
Plague -- Europe -- History -- Fiction
Storytelling -- Fiction
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