Decameron is a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio. The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three ...
The Santa Fe New Mexican: Book Reviews — "The Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, translated by Wayne A. Rebhorn, W.W. Norton & Company, 947 pages The year is 1348. Europe is devastated by the Black Death, few cities more so than Florence.
“The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio is an inexhaustible treasure, a work to read and reread, even almost seven hundred years after it was written.” So says writer and translator Alberto Cristofori, ...
The Daily Telegraph: The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio, tr by Wayne A Rebhorn, review
The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio - The year is 1348. The Black Death has begun to ravage Europe. Ten young Florentinesseven women and three menescape the plague-infested city and retreat to the ...
Dallas Morning News: Book review: 'The Decameron,' by Giovanni Boccaccio, translated by Wayne A. Rebhorn
Book review: 'The Decameron,' by Giovanni Boccaccio, translated by Wayne A. Rebhorn
The Netflix dark comedy is loosely based on Giovanni Boccaccio's short story collection set during the bubonic plague pandemic. By Nicole Fell Assistant Editor The dark comedy, which released on the ...
Loosely based on Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th-century collection of short stories, the series follows a group of Italian nobles and servants who flee to the countryside to escape the Black Death Based on ...
Written by Giovanni Boccaccio in the 1350s, this collection of stories deals with sexuality in a way that can still make readers blush – and it has now inspired a Netflix comedy. Quiz question: which ...