The Decameron (Day 1 to Day 5)

Name: The Decameron (Day 1 to Day 5)
Author: Giovanni Boccaccio

by Giovanni Boccaccio

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The Decameron (Day 1 to Day 5) Containing an hundred pleasant Novels

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Clare Graham and Marc D'Hooghe (Images generously made available by the Internet Archive.)

Release date

2016-07-22

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Plague -- Europe -- History -- Fiction Storytelling -- Fiction Allegories Frame-stories

About the author

Giovanni Boccaccio

1313–1375

Best known for The Decameron, this 14th-century Italian writer helped shape Renaissance storytelling with lively tales that mix wit, desire, satire, and sharp observations about human behavior. He was also an important early scholar of Dante and one of the key literary voices of medieval Italy.

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