by Giovanni Boccaccio · Ediciones Nájera · tapa dura · ISBN 9788476620588
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«Decamerón» is a collection of one hundred tales by Giovanni Boccaccio, published by Ediciones Nájera in hardback (694 pages, in Spanish).
Ten young people —seven women and three men— retreat to the countryside to escape the plague and, over ten days, take turns telling one hundred stories. In them, love, lust, wit and fortune intertwine, offering a vision of life in medieval Italy.
This 1987 edition belongs to the Clásicos universales collection from Ediciones Nájera. The original work, written in Italian in the fourteenth century, is titled «Il Decamerone».
For readers of medieval classics and short fiction with an interest in Italian literature.
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.
