The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
By: translated by Richard Aldington; illustrated by Rockwell Kent.
Contributors: Kent, Rockwell.; Garden City Publishing Company.
Publisher: Garden City Publishing Company
Published: 1930
Place of publication: Garden City (N.Y.)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 562
Work titles: Decamerone.
Description: Fourteenth-century Italian book written in the wake of the Black Death. The short stories are told in a country villa outside the city of Florence by ten young noble men and women who are seeking to escape the ravages of the plague.