Mrs Rosie and the Priest

Name: Mrs Rosie and the Priest
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
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English

By (author): Giovanni Boccaccio

Translated by: Peter Hainsworth

Four hilarious and provocative stories from Boccaccio's Decameron, featuring cuckolded husbands, cross-dressing wives and very bad priests.

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Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375). Boccaccio's Decameron is available in Penguin Classics in both a complete and selected edition.

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Weight: 53g
Dimensions: 111 x 161mm
Publication Date: 26 Feb 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780141397825

About Giovanni Boccaccio

Boccaccio was born in Florence in 1313. He later moved to Naples where he became part of the circle at court and started writing books. In 1348 he witnessed the plague in Florence which killed half the city's population and would become the backdrop to his masterpieceThe Decameron. In later life he befriended the poet Petrarch who left to him in his will an ermine robe to keep him warm when studying on winter nights. Boccaccio died in 1375.