The Decameron (Classics) - Softcover

McWilliam, G. H.; Boccaccio, Giovanni

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140442693 ISBN 13: 9780140442694

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1973

Inhaltsangabe

The Decameron

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Reseña del editor:

A new translation of the fourteenth-century tales recounted by young citizens of Florence who have fled the city to escape the plague.

Biografía del autor:

Boccaccio was born in Florence in 1313. He later moved to Naples, where he became part of the circle at court and started writing books. In 1348, he witnessed the plague in Florence, which killed half the city's population and would become the backdrop to his masterpiece,The Decameron. In later life he befriended the poet Petrarch, who left to him in his will an ermine robe to keep him warm when studying on winter nights. Boccaccio died in 1375.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0140442693
• ISBN 13: 9780140442694
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 848