Author: Giovanni Boccaccio

With a new foreword. Written in the fourteenth century by Italian author, poet and scholar Giovanni Boccaccio, the Decameron contains stories told ...

While the plague ravishes major cities, a group of Italian men and women seek shelter at a countryside estate telling stories to pass the time. Gio...

Bawdy and moving, hilarious and reflective - these stories offer the very best of Boccaccio's Decameron in a brilliant, playful new translation.Thi...

One of the most influential literary works ever written, this engaging set of novellas of love and lust and tragedy will entrance all readers. Cent...

Ten young Florentines flee the Black Death of 1348 by escaping to a country villa overlooking the city. There they spend ten days telling each othe...

Genealogy of the Pagan Gods by Giovanni Boccaccio (13131375) is an ambitious work of humanistic scholarship whose goal is to plunder ancient and me...

This edition presents 33 of the 100 tales, with at least two from each of the ten days of storytelling. Boccaccios general introduction and conclus...