The book has one hundred plots with hundreds of characters, narrated by ten storytellers, plus ten songs that are exquisite examples of romantic poetry. No markings./133 contains original receipt of $1.33 from Book Bar at PA Bus Terminal NY/NY. In the Decameron, Boccaccio’s young story tellers escape death literally and literarily by fleeing to the countryside. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio is a masterpiece of world literature and the source of much of our popular culture. Contains illustrations by Flameng, Gravelot, Boucher and Standfast. Boards are firm, spine intact, and pages slightly foxed. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 21 December 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of a number of notable works including the Decameron, On Famous Women, and his poetry in the Italian vernacular. DJ GOOD with chips at top and bottom of spine.

Translated from Italian to English by John Payne - considered the best translation.

First THUS Edition fourth printing published in 1949 by Stravon publishers. This article contains summaries and commentaries of the 100 stories within Giovanni Boccaccios The Decameron. Giovanni Boccaccio was a contemporary witness to the effects of the Black Death pandemic, the Yersinia pestis bacterial pandemic in Europe between the years 1346-53, causing 75 million to 200 million deaths across the continent alone. Boccaccio's skill as a dramatist is masterfully displayed in these vivid portraits of people from all stations in life, with plots that revel in a bewildering variety of human reactions. The stories are told in a country villa outside the city of Florence by ten young noble men and women who are seeking to escape the ravages of the plague. The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death.

Giovanni boccaccio's decameron