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Giovanni Boccaccio

Here are sixteen tales from one of the great works of the Middle Ages. Ten young people have fled for a while the terrible effects of the Black Death in Florence and, in an idyllic setting, tell a series of brilliant stories, by turns humorous, bawdy, tragic and provocative. This celebration of physical and sexual vitality is Boccaccio’s answer to the sublime other-worldliness of Dante’s Divine Comedy… Author - Giovanni Boccaccio. Narrator - Stephen Thorne. Published Date - Wednesday, 18 January 2023.

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United States

Description:

Here are sixteen tales from one of the great works of the Middle Ages. Ten young people have fled for a while the terrible effects of the Black Death in Florence and, in an idyllic setting, tell a series of brilliant stories, by turns humorous, bawdy, tragic and provocative. This celebration of physical and sexual vitality is Boccaccio’s answer to the sublime other-worldliness of Dante’s Divine Comedy… Author - Giovanni Boccaccio. Narrator - Stephen Thorne. Published Date - Wednesday, 18 January 2023.

Language:

English


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