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The Decameron: A Diplomatic Edition Hardcover - 1974
by Giovanni Boccaccio; Charles S. Singleton (Editor)
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In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside. They amuse themselves by each telling a story a day for the ten days they are destined to remain there - a hundred stories of love, adventure and surprising twists of fate. Less preoccupied with abstract concepts of morality or religion than earthly values, the tales range from the bawdy Peronella hiding her lover in a tub to Ser Cepperallo, who, despite his unholy effrontery, becomes a Saint. The result is a towering monument of European literature and a masterpiece of imaginative narrative.
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Every time I stop to consider your natural inclination to pity, most gracious ladies, I recognize that you will find the opening of this present work abhorrent and distressing; for so is the painful recapitulation of the recent deadly plague, which occasioned hardship and grief to everyone who witnessed it or had some experience of it, and which marks the introduction of my work.
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- Title The Decameron: A Diplomatic Edition
- Author Giovanni Boccaccio; Charles S. Singleton (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 688
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD 21205
- Date April 1, 1974
- ISBN 9780801814655 / 0801814650
- Reading level 1500
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 72008892
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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