Tales from the Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

Chicago, Illinois: Puritan Publishing Company, (1930).

Price: $20.00

Hardcover. Later printing. Owner name, small ink note on title page, last few pages with a faint stain, covers lightly rubbed, corners and spine ends bumped, spine slightly sunned, about very good, lacking the dust jacket. A collection of 100 tales told over seven days by the fictional characters of seven ladies and three young men.

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Item #243978 Tales from the Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. Richard ALDINGTON.

Giovanni Boccaccio
birth name: Giovanni Boccaccio
died: 12/21/1375

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Italian poet and scholar, best remembered as the author of the Decameron. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore