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The Decameron
The Decameron
Author: Giovanni Boccaccio, G. H. McWilliam (Translator)
In the early summer of the year 1348, as a terrible plague ravages the city, ten charming young Florentines take refuge in country villas to tell each other stories—a hundred stories of love, adventure and surprising twists of fortune which later inspired Chaucer, Keats and Shakespeare. While Dante is a stern moralist, Boccaccio has little...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780140449303
ISBN-10: 0140449302
Publication Date: 4/29/2003
Pages: 1,072
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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Great old classic filled delicious bawdiness and ribaldry!


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