by Giovanni Boccaccio · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432038662
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«Decamerón» is Giovanni Boccaccio's collection of tales, published by Planeta in paperback (619 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Florence during the Black Death, the work brings together a hundred stories told by ten young people who retreat to a country villa to escape the epidemic. Over ten days, each contributes a daily tale, and together they unfold a mosaic of love, fortune, wit and tragedy, with irony, humour and a critical view of the society of their time.
Part of the Clásicos Universales Planeta collection (no. 35), with an introduction by Francisco José Alcántara and a translation by Marçal Olivar.
For readers of classics and Italian literature interested in medieval short fiction and collections of tales.
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.
