by Giovanni Boccaccio · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788402093493
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«Decamerón» is the collection of one hundred tales by Giovanni Boccaccio, published by Bruguera in paperback (762 pages, in Spanish).
Ten young people leave Florence ravaged by the plague and take refuge in a villa, where they take turns telling one hundred stories over ten days. Between humour, irony and drama, the tales portray cunning, love, fortune and human vices, turning the work into a fresco of medieval society.
Translation, introduction and notes by Pilar Gómez Bedate. 1983 edition in the Bruguera Major Series.
For readers interested in the classics of Italian literature and in the short story as a narrative form.
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.
