The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
Garden City, New York: Garden City Books, 1949. Kent, Rockwell. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. Item #2351850
Reissue. Several 1 inch jacket tears, ink gift note on front endpaper. Binding tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked.
576 pp. Translated by Richard Aldington, complete and unexpurgated. Rockwell Kent illustrations, including 32 in color. An Italian classic about a group of travelers during the plague years. Boccaccio's 14th century collection of 100 stories, controversial at the time for its inclusion of erotic themes, and important today for the details it provides about life in Italy at the time.
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