A masterpiece of world literature, most likely written between 1349 and 1351, The Decameron alternates between tragedy and comedy in its sweeping view of life. Comprising 100 tales told by ten young people who have retreated to the countryside to escape the plague raging...
Bawdy and moving, hilarious and reflective: these stories offer the very best of Boccaccio's Decameron--an inspiration for the Netflix dark comedy The Decameron--in a brilliant, playful new translation. "The Decameron reads in...
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio is a collection of tales written in the late 14th century. This edition, published in 1884, includes forty of the one hundred tales told by ten young people who flee from Florence during the Black Death and spend ten days in a villa outside...