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Decameron

by Boccaccio, Giovanni

Additional authors: Narro, Jose, -- illustrator. | McWilliam, G. H. -- (George Henry), -- translator. | Oxford University Press, -- publisher. | Franklin Library (Pa.), -- publisher.

Published by : Franklin Library (Franklin Center, Pa) Physical details: 749 pages illustrations 24 cm

Subject(s): Plague -- Europe -- History -- Fiction. | Middle Ages -- Fiction.

Year: 1985

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"The Franklin Library has been selected by the Oxford University Press as publishers of the Oxford Library of the world's great books"--Title page verso

"This special edition of The Decameron was prepared for subscribers to the Oxford Library of the World's Great Books"--Preliminary page [5]

Boccaccio's masterpiece, The Decameron, consists of 100 stories organized to the impression of a total view of society. In the book seven young ladies and three young men flee an outbreak of the plague in Florence in 1348. They live together in the countryside for two weeks and amuse themselves by telling stories of love and adventure. Each day they choose a king or queen who determines the theme of the stories. Boccaccio's stories influenced Geoffrey Chaucer and Dante.

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