Boccaccio Giovanni:
The Decameron: Selected Tales

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Editor: BobBlaisdell

Dover Publications , 2000
Quality paperback, 192 pages
Size: 210x133 mm
ISBN: 9780486411132
ISBN-10: 0486411133

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Giovanni Boccaccio

Although Giovanni Boccaccio Was Born In France And Raised And Educated In Naples, Where He Wrote His First Works Under The Patronage Of The French Angevin Ruler, Boccaccio Always Considered Himself A Tuscan, Like Petrarch And Dante. After Boccaccop Returned To Florence In 1340, He Witnessed The Outbreak Of The Great Plague, Or Black Death, In 1348. This Provided The Setting For His Most Famous Work, The Vernacular Prose Masterpiece Il Decamerone (Decameron) (1353). This Collection Of 100 Short Stories, Told By 10 Florentines Who Leave Plague-Infected Florence For The Neighboring Hill Town Of F

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