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Decameron ? l'opera pi? famosa dell'autore toscano Giovanni Boccaccio. Una raccolta di cento novelle scritte tra il 1349 e 1351. In questo libro sono state inserite le dieci novelle della "Giornata Prima".

Son of a merchant, Boccaccio di Chellino di Buonaiuto, of Certaldo in Val d'Elsa, a little town about midway between Empoli and Siena, but within the Florentine "contado," Gio-vanni Boccaccio was born, most probably at Paris, in the year 1313. His mother, at any rate, was a Frenchwoman,... Read Full Overview

The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death. The stories are told in a country villa outside the city of Florence by ten young noble men and women who are seeking to escape the ravages of the plague. Boccaccio's... Read Full Overview

Il Decamerone di Giovanni Boccaccio V2 ����� un libro del 1849 che presenta una raccolta di novelle scritte da Giovanni Boccaccio. Questa edizione include spiegazioni tratte dai migliori commentari, che aiutano a comprendere meglio il contenuto... Read Full Overview

Il Decamerone di Giovanni Boccaccio V2 ����� un libro che contiene una raccolta di novelle scritte da Giovanni Boccaccio nel XIV secolo. Questa edizione del libro ����� del 1849 e include anche spiegazioni... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

Decameron ? l'opera pi? famosa dell'autore toscano Giovanni Boccaccio. Si tratta di una raccolta di novelle scritte tra il 1349 e 1351. In questo libro sono state inserite le dieci novelle della "Giornata Seconda".

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

- Cimon, by loving, waxes wise, wins his wife Iphigenia by capture on the high seas, and is imprisoned at Rhodes. He is delivered by Lysimachus; and the twain capture Cassandra and recapture Iphigenia in the hour of their marriage. They flee with their ladies to Crete, and having... Read Full Overview

I say, then, that such was the energy of the contagion of the said pestilence, that it was not merely propagated from man to man but, what is much more startling, it was frequently observed, that things which had belonged to one sick or dead of the disease, if touched by some... Read Full Overview