Book Review of The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Name of Book: The Decameron Author Name: Giovanni Boccaccio ISBN: 0-14-044-269-3 Publisher: Penguin Classics Type of book: Adult, historical, anthology, classic Year it was published: 1350s? (Penguin Edition 1972) Summary: The Decameron, here presented entire and unexpurgated in a new translation, remains one of the supreme monuments of world literature. The Black Death of 1348 lends a macabre setting to the hundred stories which are supposed to be recounted, during ten days, by a party of wealthy young patricians taking refuge in a villa outside Florence. With equal felicity they range over comedy and tragedy, morality and bawdy; and the skill with which Boccaccio matches the style and mood of his prose narrative to the tales and their tellers is as astonishing as the variety of a collections which has often been imitated but never bettered. Stories: I have many favorite tales from the book I fell in love with and enjoyed. My favorite one in particular was ...