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Famous Women by Giovanni Boccaccio; Virginia Brown (Edited and Translated by)
$59.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\I Tatti Renaissance Library
After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio(1313-1375) devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous Women, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted exclusively t ...Show more
Tales from the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Bawdy and moving, hilarious and reflective - these stories offer the very best of Boccaccio's Decameron in a brilliant, playful new translation. This hugely enjoyable volume collects the best stories of Boccaccio's masterwork in a fresh, accessible new translation by Peter Hainsworth. It includes such c ...Show more
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio; Susanna Barsella (Foreword by)
$52.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Gothic Fantasy Ser.
In this bold and bawdy fourteenth-century Italian masterpiece, ten friends escape the plague by telling a series of wise, witty, and irreverent stories. It's the summer of 1348 and Venice is overrun by the Black Death. Taking refuge in an isolated country house, ten young friends agree to tell each othe ...Show more
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside. They amuse themselves by each telling a story a day for the ten days they are destined to remain there - a hundred stories of love, adventure and surprising twists of fate. Less preoccupie ...Show more
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