Boccaccio - Decameron
- Authors
- Boccaccio, Giovanni
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Tags
- classics
- ISBN
- 9780140449303
- Date
- 1353-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 5.03 MB
- Lang
- en
The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death. The stories are told in a country villa outside the city of Florence by ten young noble men and women who are seeking to escape the ravages of the plague. Boccaccio's skill as a dramatist is masterfully displayed in these vivid portraits of people from all stations in life, with plots that revel in a bewildering variety of human reactions.
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by G. H. McWilliam