by Giovanni Boccaccio · PLAZA & JANES · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401410277
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«El Decamerón» is the collection of one hundred tales by Giovanni Boccaccio, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (639 pages, in Spanish).
The work brings together one hundred tales that ten young people, seven women and three men, tell each other to pass the time while taking refuge from the Black Death on the outskirts of Florence. Between satire and comedy, the stories alternate loves, deceptions, cunning and strokes of fortune, and portray with irony the Italian society of the fourteenth century.
This 1973 edition belongs to the El Arca de Papel collection (no. 27) and includes the translation from Italian by Juan G. de Luaces.
An ideal work for readers of medieval classics and short narrative with irony and a portrait of customs.
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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.
