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The Decameron

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The Decameron

by Boccaccio, Giovanni (Illustrations by Louis Chalon.)

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London: Navarre Society [no date]. (Hardcover set) 332, 404pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 2 volumes. Red cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Color illustrated frontispiece, black and white and color illustrations. "Son of a merchant, Boccaccio di Chellino di Buonaiuto, of Certaido in Val d'Elsa, a little town about midway between Empoli and Siena, but within the Florentine 'contado,' Giovanni, Boccaccio was born, most probably at Paris, in the year 1313" - from the Introduction. Book about Plague. Time Period Black Plague. Illustrations by Louis Chalon. Translated by J.M. Rigg. (Fiction, Storytelling).

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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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Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB CA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
The Decameron
Author
Boccaccio, Giovanni (Illustrations by Louis Chalon.)
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used
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Publisher
Navarre Society
Place of Publication
London
Keywords
Fiction, Storytelling
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