Decameron
Publisher: Everymans Library
Published: June 1953
Language: eng
Number of pages: 681
ISBN-13: 9780460108454
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.
Notes: Everyman's Library