Decameron

Decameron
ISBN-10
184022133X
ISBN-13
9781840221336
Series
Decameron
Category
Fiction
Pages
766
Language
English
Published
2004
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Author
Giovanni Boccaccio

Description

Boccaccio's Decameron recasts the storytelling heritage of the ancient and medieval worlds into perennial forms that inspired writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare down to our own day.

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