by Giovanni Boccaccio · Planeta. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432085239
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«Decamerón» is the collection of one hundred tales by Giovanni Boccaccio, published by Planeta in hardback (619 pages, in Spanish).
Giovanni Boccaccio brings together in the book one hundred stories that seven women and three men tell over ten days, while taking refuge in a villa to escape the plague that ravages Florence in 1348. Between love, cunning, mockery and fortune, Boccaccio portrays medieval society with irony, alternating tragic and comic tales.
This 1992 edition belongs to Planeta's «Clásicos Universales» collection and presents the 1496 Castilian version updated by Marcial Olivar.
The one hundred tales of «Decamerón» allow episodic reading, intended for readers of medieval literature and short fiction.
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.
