by Giovanni Boccaccio · Agata · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788482380179
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«Frailes, curas y monjas» is the collection of fifteen short stories by Giovanni Boccaccio, published by Ágata in paperback (127 pages, in Spanish).
Boccaccio brings together fifteen tales in which he looks with irony and lightheartedness at love affairs, the vices of the clergy, and the social customs of his time. Hypocrisy, lust, and corruption are the constant target of a critical satire, with no edifying intent.
The edition is from 1994, with ISBN 9788482380179; its classification is Literature and Fiction.
For readers interested in the satirical and lighthearted side of Boccaccio, complementary to The Decameron.
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.
