Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio

By Giovanni Boccaccio

Release Date: 2010-04-01

Genre: Fiction

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Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio
Here are sixteen tales from one of the great works of the Middle Ages. Ten young people have fled for a while the terrible effects of the Black Death in Florence and, in an idyllic setting, tell a series of brilliant stories, by turns humorous, bawdy, tragic and provocative. This celebration of physical and sexual vitality is Boccaccio’s answer to the sublime other-worldliness of Dante’s Divine Comedy…

Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio

By Giovanni Boccaccio

Release Date: 2010-04-01

Genre: Fiction

(0 ratings)
Here are sixteen tales from one of the great works of the Middle Ages. Ten young people have fled for a while the terrible effects of the Black Death in Florence and, in an idyllic setting, tell a series of brilliant stories, by turns humorous, bawdy, tragic and provocative. This celebration of physical and sexual vitality is Boccaccio’s answer to the sublime other-worldliness of Dante’s Divine Comedy…

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