A review by pbobrit
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

4.0

Not going to write too much about this, as I have a couple of papers to write on it for school and fear I will be written out HOWEVER this book is great. One of the first Italian vernacular prose novels, made up of 100 novellas (10 stories narrated by 10 characters over 10 days), set and write in the days of the Black Death. This is in my opinion the humanist equivalent of Dante's Divine Comedy, but sadly it it has not been treated as such until the last 30 years. This book works on so many levels, it is great read, the stories always entertaining but infused with so much hidden meaning. I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good and often bawdy tale with depth. Also given it's structure it is one you can digest slowly.