by Giovanni Boccaccio, Piero Chiara · Mondadori Scuola · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788824726344
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The Decameron is a collection of one hundred stories written in the 14th century by Giovanni Boccaccio. The work is set in Florence during the Black Death of 1348 and tells the story of ten young people who flee the city to take refuge in a villa in the countryside. There, each of them tells a story a day for ten days, resulting in the hundred narratives that make up the book. This edition includes ten selected and adapted stories by Piero Chiara, offering an accessible introduction to Boccaccio's masterpiece.
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.
