by Giovanni Boccaccio · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420666921
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«El Decamerón, 2» is the second volume of Giovanni Boccaccio's classic narrative work, published by Alianza in paperback, with 544 pages in Spanish.
The Decameron brings together one hundred tales told by a group of young people who retreat to the countryside to escape the Black Death. Over ten days, among pious stories, fables, pranks and satires, Boccaccio composes a fresco of fourteenth-century Italy: uninhibited customs, courtly love, anticlericalism and the nascent urban bourgeoisie.
This edition, divided into two volumes, is based on the Italian text established by Vittore Branca and features a translation by Esther Benítez. It belongs to the El Libro de Bolsillo – Literatura collection.
For readers of classic fiction and for those who want to approach medieval literature and the origins of the Renaissance.
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.
