Boccaccio and His Imitators in German, English, French, Spanish and Italian Literature
Subtitle: The Decameron
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: December 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9781417962914
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Literary
First sentence: If a twentieth-century playwright were to site down with the Bible and the Decameron before him from which to select plots to work over for the entertainment of the public, the very proximity of the two books would be considered sacrilegious.