Giovanni Boccaccio

Decameron (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Inspired by the Black Plague that devastated Europe in the mid-1300s, Boccaccio's collection of tales is an enormously influential literary masterpiece with a sly humor and irreverence that will appeal to modern readers. In the hopes of avoiding the plague, a group of ten wealthy young men and women decamp to a country villa on the outskirts of Florence. Once there, they decide to amuse themselves with a storytelling competition of sorts, with each attendee offering one tale each day for a period of ten days. The stories are by turns ribald, tragic and everything in between.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Floating Press
• Seitenzahl: 789
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781776588558
• Artikelnr.: 42962731

Autorenporträt

Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian author and poet, was born in 1313 and died in 1375. Born in Liverpool, England, J. G. Nichols is a poet, literary critic, and translator. He was awarded the John Florio Prize for his translation of the poems of Guido Gozzano. His translation of Petrarch’s Canzoniere won the Premio Internazionale Diego Valeri in 2000.