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The Decameron

The Decameron

Boccaccio, Giovanni
Barsella, Susanna

Hardcover

Series: Gothic Fantasy

Classic FictionGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction

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ISBN10: 1804173444
ISBN13: 9781804173442
Publisher: Flame Tree Collections
Published: Jun 13 2023
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Beautiful collector's edition of the famous Decameron: one hundred fables and fairy tales with the universal wisdom of great literature...

With a new foreword. Written in the fourteenth century by Italian author, poet and scholar Giovanni Boccaccio, the Decameron contains stories told by ten young Florentines who have fled the city to escape the Plague. Presented within the sophisticated structure of a surrounding frame story, the one hundred allegorical tales are shared through the voices of these people as they spend their nights regaling the company with tales intended to guide and comfort, from the erotic, sensual, and bawdy to the intellectual, philosophical and tragic. The work's fundamental purpose is one of ethical instruction through the means of beautiful and entertaining prose, touching on themes of morality, fortune, human will, wit, virtue, female agency, and love won and lost. This is Boccaccio's masterpiece and is generally viewed as the work that confirmed his reputation as the founder of Italian prose literature. It is also one of the world's great literary masterpieces.

Flame Tree Gothic Fantasy, Classic Stories and Epic Tales collections bring together the entire range of myth, folklore, epic literature and modern short fiction. Highlighting the roots of suspense, supernatural, science fiction and mystery stories, the books in Flame Tree Collections series are beautifully presented, perfect as a gift and offer a lifetime of reading pleasure.

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