Boccaccio Giovanni:
Famous Women
Translator: VirginiaBrown
Harvard University Press, 2003
Quality paperback, 282 pages
Size: 203x135 mm
ISBN: 9780674011304
ISBN-10: 0674011309
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
Virginia Brown
Virginia Brown Is Senior Fellow, Pontifical Institute Of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto.
