The Decameron
Subtitle: in Two Volumes - Volume One
Publisher: Dent
Published: 1968
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780460008457
First sentence: 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.