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The Decameron Selected Tales/Decameron Novelle Scelte
The Decameron Selected Tales/Decameron Novelle Scelte Author:Giovanni Boccaccio From one of the great literary classics of the world?a carefully chosen selection of 20 stories told by ten young people who have retreated to the countryside to escape the plague raging in 14th-century Florence. Contains such favorites as "The Pot of Basil," "Patient Griselda," and the bawdy "Putting the Devil Back in Hell." Includes informativ... more »e introduction and English translations on pages facing Italian original.« less