Giovanni Boccaccio

Written in the middle of the 14th century as the Bubonic Plague decimated the population of Europe, "The Decameron" is a satirical and allegorical collection of stories by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio. Constructed as a series of "frame stories," or stories within a story, the narrative follows seven young women and three young men who take refuge in a secluded villa outside Florence in order to escape the Black Death. During ten evenings of their...

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Giovanni Boccaccio - is the greatest Italian writer of the epoch of Renaissance, who stood at the beginnings of the Renaissance culture together with Petrarch and Dante. Boccaccio laid the foundations of the new poetry, pastorals and epic poems, but the world fame he got thanks to his collection of novels «the Decameron», presented in this book. The title of the book is translated as «ten-day period». Exactly for ten days Boccaccio's heroes, ten...

The Decameron' is a collection of short stories by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio. The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men; they shelter in a secluded villa just outside Florence in order to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city. The various tales of love in The Decameron range from the erotic to the tragic. Tales of wit, practical jokes,...

Giovanni Boccaccio is an Italian writer and poet, a representative of the literature of the Early Renaissance, who, along with his idols, Dante and Petrarch, had a significant impact on the development of all European culture. "Decameron. Selected Novels "is the best solution to get acquainted with the great work of Boccaccio. The "Favorites" includes the most popular novels of the Fourth, Fifth and Tenth days of the story. Giovanni Boccaccio - the...

The most enduring work by the Renaissance humanist Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron is a collection of one hundred stories about ten young noblemen and noblewomen who escape the plague by moving to a country villa outside the Italian city of Florence. Highly influential, numerous writers have borrowed from Boccaccio's tales, including Edgar Allen Poe, John Keats, and George Eliot. In "The Stone of Invisibility," the nobleman Calandrino, as well...