by Giovanni Boccaccio · tapa dura · ISBN 9788402034298
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«El Decamerón» is the collection of one hundred tales by Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio, published by Bruguera in hardback and in Spanish.
During the Black Death, ten young people —seven women and three men— take refuge in a villa outside Florence and take turns telling each other stories. The resulting hundred tales address love, cunning, fortune, and criticism of medieval customs.
Original title: «Il Decamerone». Belongs to the «Obras Inmortales» collection, with translation by Caridad Oriol Serres. Written between 1349 and 1351.
Recommended for readers of Italian classics, short stories, and medieval narrative with historical setting.
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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.
