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Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
In the summer of 1348, the plague ravages Florence, and ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselves with tales of love, death and corruption, featuring a host of colourful characters, from lascivious clergymen and mad kings to devious lovers and false miracle-ma ...Show more
Mrs Rosie and the Priest: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #1 by Giovanni Boccaccio
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
Bawdy tales of pimps, cuckolds, lovers and clever women from the fourteenth-century Florentine masterpieceThe Decameron.
Tales from the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
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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
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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
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Decameron (c.1351) was written in the wake of the Black Death, a shattering epidemic which had shaken Florence's confident entrepreneurial society to its core. In a country villa outside the city, ten young noble men and women who have escaped the plague decide to tell each other stories. Boccaccio' ...Show more
The Eaten Heart by Giovanni Boccaccio
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Category: Display & Gift | Series: Penguin Great Loves
Ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside from the Black Death and tell stories to pass the time. From the unfaithful wife who unwittingly eats her lover's heart to the sly peasant plotting to seduce a whole nunnery, these are tales of lust, adventure and unexpected twists of fate. United by ...Show more
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