by Giovanni Boccaccio · Wordsworth Editions Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781840221336
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«Decameron» is Giovanni Boccaccio's collection of tales, published by Wordsworth Editions in paperback (848 pages, in English).
Set in Florence during the Black Death, it brings together seven women and three men who take refuge in a villa to escape the contagion. Over ten days, each tells one story daily until completing a hundred tales that combine humour, wit, love, fortune and social criticism, offering a vivid portrait of medieval society.
The English edition belongs to the Wordsworth Classics of World Literature series and opens with an introduction by Cormac O Cuilleanain; the original title, Il Decamerone, was published in the fourteenth century.
For readers of classics and short stories, with an interest in medieval narrative and fourteenth-century society.
Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was sometimes simply known as "the Certaldese". He was one of the most important figures in the European literary panorama of the fourteenth century. Some scholars define him as the greatest European prose writer of his time, a versatile writer who amalgamated different literary trends and genres, making them converge in original works, thanks to a creative activity exercised under the banner of experimentalism.
