The Decameron: Or Ten Days' Entertainment by Giovanni Boccaccio

The Decameron: Or Ten Days' Entertainment

Giovanni Boccaccio with John Payne (Translator)

30 hours first pub 1351 (editions)

fiction classics literary short stories adventurous funny slow-paced
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In 1348, the year of the Black Death, seven ladies and three gentlemen escape the dying, corrupt city of Florence to pass ten days in the hills of Fiesole telling each other stories. Reveling in their enchanted dreamworld of beauty and luxury, the...

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