Decameron
Subtitle: A Diplomatic Edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1974
Language: eng; ita
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 688
ISBN-13: 9780801814655
Subjects: Modern fiction; Classics; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Fiction
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.