Giovanni boccaccio il decamerone

The plots of the tales, touching on a different theme each day, are drawn from folkloric, French and contemporary sources and were greatly influential on European literature, including Chaucer and Shakespeare who derived plots from Boccaccio. Boccaccio's masterpiece written in the early 1350s is a collection of 100 prose stories told within a framing narrative in which seven women and three men take refuge in the Fiesole countryside to escape the Black Death epidemic in Florence, passing the time by telling tales over the period of the ten days indicated by the title. Venetia (Place),, 1545.Ĥ53, leaves : woodcut illus.

Giovanni Boccaccio, nvovamente corretto, historiato, & con diligenza stampato.