by Giovanni Boccaccio · LIBSA EDITORIAL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788489715592
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«El Decamerón» is the 14th-century collection of one hundred tales by Giovanni Boccaccio, published in paperback (381 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Florence in 1348, ravaged by the Black Death, the work brings together ten young people, seven women and three men, who retreat to a villa and take turns telling a story each day for ten days. From this arise one hundred tales of varied tone —erotic, tragic, comic and moralizing— offering an ironic and vitalist view of medieval society.
The edition was published in 1997 and belongs to the Grandes Clásicos collection.
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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.
