The Decameron
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The Decameron
By Giovanni BoccaccioThe book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men sheltering in a secluded villa just outside Florence to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city.
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THE DECAMERON: Collector's Edition - 3 Different Translations by John Payne, John Florio & J.M. Rigg in One Volume
By Giovanni BoccaccioGiovanni Boccaccio. DAY. EIGHTH-NOVEL. VII. Table of Contents -- A scholar loveth a widow lady, who, being enamured of another, causeth him spend one winter's night in the snow awaiting her, and he after contriveth, by his sleight, ...
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The Decameron: Volume II
By Giovanni BoccaccioReproduction of the original: The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
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The Decameron
By Giovanni BoccaccioThey do this for ten days, with a few other days of rest in between, resulting in the 100 stories of the Decameron. The Decameron was written after the Black Plague spread through Italy in 1348.
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The Decameron
By Giovanni BoccaccioHow can you escape it one must wonder? The 14th-century Italian writer came up with a solution in his masterpiece, The Decameron: story-telling.
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The Decameron: Preserved to Posterity
By Giovanni BoccaccioThe Decameron: Preserved to Posterity
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The Decameron: Preserved to Posterity
By Giovanni BoccaccioThe Decameron: Preserved to Posterity
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The Decameron: Or, Ten Days Entertainment
By Giovanni BoccaccioThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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The Decameron
By Giovanni BoccaccioAs often, most gracious ladies, as, taking thought in myself, I mind me how very pitiful you are all by nature, so often do I recognize that this present work will, to your thinking, have a grievous and a weariful beginning, inasmuch as the ...
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The Decameron: Preserved to Posterity
By Giovanni BoccaccioThe Decameron: Preserved to Posterity
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The Decameron: Or, Ten Days Entertainment Of Boccaccio: Translated From The Italian
By Boccaccio Giovanni 1313-1375This is a classic work of Italian literature, written in the fourteenth century. The book consists of one hundred stories told by a group of young people who have fled Florence to avoid the plague.
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The Decameron: Or, Ten Days Entertainment - Primary Source Edition
By Giovanni BoccaccioThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
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The Decameron
By Giovanni BoccaccioThe 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.
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The Decameron: Or, Ten Days' Entertainment
By Giovanni BoccaccioThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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The Decameron: Including Forty of Its Hundred Novels
By Giovanni BoccaccioThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.