The Decameron: The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence and Conversation, Framed in Ten Days, of an Hundred Curious Pieces, by Seven Honourable Ladies, and Three Noble Gentlemen; Preserved to Posterity by the Renowned John Boccaccio (The Heritage Press)
New York: The Heritage Press, 1940. Kredel, Fritz. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2332655
Lacks slipcase and Sandglass insert. Bookplate on paste-down endpapers.
xxi, 536 pp. Preserved to posterity by the renowned John Boccaccio. Translated into English anno 1620, with an introduction by Edward Hutton. Wood-cuts in the Renaissance manner by Fritz Kredel. Set during the Black Death, The Decameron is a collection of 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men, hunkered down in self-imposed quarantine as they waited out the pandemic plague then sweeping through Florence. The stories of The Decameron range from the erotic to the tragic to the comic, from frivolous practical jokes to meaningful life lessons. One of the most literary significant and influential works of European literature, it is considered to be a masterpiece of classical early Italian prose.
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