The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
New York: The Modern Library, [circa 1945].
Price: $20.00
Hardcover. Later printing. Ink notations on endpapers, small stamp on rear page, front fly with a 2" abrasion and small hole, hinges cracked, covers worn and soiled, spine rubbed and tanned, good only. A collection of 100 tales told over seven days by the fictional characters of seven ladies and three young men.
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Giovanni Boccaccio
birth name: Giovanni Boccaccio
died: 12/21/1375
Biography
Italian poet and scholar, best remembered as the author of the Decameron. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore