by Giovanni Boccaccio · Castalia Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497405102
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«El Decamerón (Diez cuentos)» is a selection of ten tales by Giovanni Boccaccio, published by Castalia Ediciones in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
Seven ladies and three young men leave Florence ravaged by the plague of 1348 and take refuge in a villa on the outskirts. To entertain themselves, over ten days they take turns telling stories, with a theme imposed each day by a king or queen of the gathering. This edition, prepared by Juan Varela-Portas, brings together ten of those tales.
Volume 28 of the Castalia Prima collection. The edition includes a reading guide, bibliography and glossary.
Suitable for students and for those seeking a first approach to the classics with supporting material.
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.
