by Giovanni Boccaccio · Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437612416
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«Decamerón» is the story collection by Giovanni Boccaccio, published by Cátedra in paperback (1179 pages, in Spanish).
Ten young people, seven women and three men, flee Florence ravaged by the Black Death and take refuge in a villa, where they take turns telling a hundred stories over ten days. Love, wit, fortune and desire populate tales that portray medieval society and celebrate human intelligence.
Edition by María Hernández Esteban in the Letras Universales collection. Fifth edition, with Spanish translation.
Aimed at readers of classical literature and lovers of the short story, with an interest in the Middle Ages and the origins of European 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.
