by Giovanni Boccaccio · Gredos · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788424918842
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Las Ninfas de Fiesole is a poem by Giovanni Boccaccio that narrates the tragic love of a nymph. The work, written in a colloquial, almost spoken tone, explores themes such as love, the experience of motherhood, and family tenderness. Boccaccio transfers the cosmic pantheism of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" to create a new myth, anticipating the European Renaissance.
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.
