![]() ![]() ![]() This volume contains a carefully chosen selection of 20 of its best-known tales, including those that inspired later works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Gotthold Lessing, Keats, and other writers. Comprising 100 tales told by ten young people who have retreated to the countryside to escape the plague raging through fourteenth-century Florence, the work is a perfect example of classic Italian prose. ![]() About the Book From one of the great literary classics of the world - a carefully chosen selection of 20 stories, including The Pot of Basil, Patient Griselda, and the bawdy Putting the Devil Back in Hell.īook Synopsis A masterpiece of world literature, most likely written between 13, The Decameron alternates between tragedy and comedy in its sweeping view of life. ![]()
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