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Status
Available
Description
The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death. The stories are told in a country villa outside the city of Florence by ten young noble men and women who are seeking to escape the ravages of the plague. Boccaccio's skill as adramatist is masterfully displayed in these vivid portraits of people from all stations in life, with plots that revel in a bewildering variety of human reactions.
Publication
New York : New American Library, [2002], c1982.
ISBN
0451528662 / 9780451528667
Pages
xxxvii; 810
Language
Original language
Italian
Original publication date
1350-53
1469 or 1470 (First Printed Edition in Italy ∙ from circulating manuscripts)
1527 (printing in Florence ∙ Italy ∙ of the best edition in original Italian)
1573 ( [1527] ∙ Italy)
1827 (a complete edition of Boccaccio's works issued et. seq. by Moutier of Florence ∙ Italy)
1620 (First English translation ∙ anonymously came out in London ∙ England)
1886 (Translated by John Payne)
1903 (Translated by James M. Rigg)
1930 (Translated by Richard Aldington)
1930 (Translated by Frances Winwar)
1940 ( [1620] ∙ introduction and illustrations issued in New York ∙ USA)
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