Decameron: Days VI-XThe 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 skill as a dramatist is masterfully displayed in these vivid portraits of people from all stations in life, with plots that revel in a bewildering variety of human reactions. |
Contents
THE SIXTH DAY PAGE | 445 |
The Third Story PAGE | 454 |
The Sixth Story PAGE | 461 |
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| Title | Decameron: Days VI-X Volume 2 of Decameron, Charles Southward Singleton Volume 2 of Decameron, Charles Southward Singleton, ISBN 0520035577, 9780520035577 Volume 2 of Decameron: The John Payne Translation, Charles Southward Singleton |
| Author | Giovanni Boccaccio |
| Translated by | John Payne, Charles Southward Singleton |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 1982 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Apr 3, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0520035577, 9780520035577 |
| Length | 948 pages |
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