Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend, student, and correspondent of Petrarch, and important Renaissance humanist, best known for the Decameron, a medieval allegorical work best known for its bawdy tales of love, appearing in all its possibilities from the erotic to the tragic.
This classic 14th-century masterpiece by Giovanni Boccaccio is a collection of 100 tales told by a group of young men and women sheltering from the Black Plague in the countryside. The stories range from the comedic to the tragic, offering a vivid panorama of medieval life, human folly, and social customs. With themes of love, wit, morality, and survival, The Decameron has remained a foundational work of Western literature and an enduring study of human nature.
Although Giovanni Boccaccio was born in France and raised and educated in Naples, where he wrote his first works under the patronage of the French Angevin ruler, Boccaccio always considered himself a Tuscan, like Petrarch and Dante. After Boccaccop returned to Florence in 1340, he witnessed the outbreak of the great plague, or Black Death, in 1348. This provided the setting for his most famous work, the vernacular prose masterpiece Il Decamerone (Decameron) (1353). This collection of 100 short stories, told by 10 Florentines who leave plague-infected Florence for the neighboring hill town of F
This item is eligible for simple returns within 30 days of delivery. Return shipping is the responsibility of the customer. See our returns policy for further details.
