The Decameron, Paperback - Giovanni Boccaccio

This Norton Critical Edition includes: - Fifty-five judiciously chosen stories from Wayne A. Rebhorn's translation of The Decameron. - Introductory...

Includes tales as 'Isabella and the Pot of Basil' (famously adapted by Keats) and 'Patient Griselda' alongside many boisterous and daring stories f...

The Decameron (c.1351) was written in the wake of the Black Death, a shattering epidemic which had shaken Florence's confident entrepreneurial soci...

Reducere. While the Black Death rages through 14th-century Florence, a group of young people retreat to the healthful air of the countryside and amuse themse...

DescriptionWritten in the middle of the 14th century as the Bubonic Plague decimated the population of Europe, "The Decameron" is a satirical and a...