In the time of a devastating pandemic, seven women and three men withdraw to a country estate outside Florence to give themselves a diversion from the death aro

"Previously published as The decameron project."

In Medieval Italy, seven young women and three young men flee plague-ridden Florence for the countryside, where, over the course of ten carefree days, each tell

When originally published in 1995, the volume represented a major, new departure from the "normal" sort of scholarship on Boccaccio's masterpiece, and its uniqu

"The Decameron - Volume I" from Giovanni Boccaccio. Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch (1313 - 1375).