Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio with John Payne (Translator)

766 pages first pub 1351 (editions)

fiction classics literary short stories adventurous funny slow-paced
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A new version of John Payne's Victorian translation, with an Introduction by Cormac O Cuilleanain. 1348. The Black Death is sweeping through Europe. In Florence, plague has carried off one hundred thousand people. In their Tuscan villas, seven you...

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