The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
By: translated from the Italian by Frances Winwar [pseud.
Contributors: Winwar, Frances, 1900- tr.
Edition: 1st Modern Library ed.]
Series: The Modern library of the world's best books [71]
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 1955
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; ita
Number of pages: 666
Subjects: Plague -- Europe -- History -- Fiction.; Storytelling -- Fiction.
Description: The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death. The 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. Boccaccio's skill as a dramatist is masterfully displayed in these vivid portraits of people from all stations in life, with plots that revel in a bewildering variety of human reactions.