The Decameron

Selected Tales/Decameron: Novelle Scelte: A Dual-Language Book

• Author(s): Giovanni Boccaccio, Stanley Appelbaum,
• Publisher: Courier Corporation
• Pages: 255
• ISBN_10: 0486414329
  ISBN_13: 9780486414324
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Fiction / Historical / General , Fiction / Classics ,

Description:... A chosen selection of 20 stories, including 'The Pot of Basil', 'Patient Griselda', and the bawdy 'Putting the Devil Back in Hell'. English translation on pages facing Italian original. Stories told by ten young people who have retreated to the countryside to escape the plague raging in 14th-century Florence. Includes informative introduction.