De Decamerone van Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio
"De Decamerone van Boccaccio" by Giovanni Boccaccio is a collection of short stories written between 1348 and 1353. Ten young people flee plague-ridden Florence to a countryside villa, where they pass two weeks telling one hundred tales. Their stories range from erotic to tragic, featuring clever wit, practical jokes, and life lessons. The work explores themes of love, fortune, and human nature while satirizing the clergy and church. Written in Florentine vernacular,
it captures medieval Italian life and society during the Black Death. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375 |
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| Translator | Rensburg, J. K. (Jacques Karel), 1870-1943 |
| Title | De Decamerone van Boccaccio |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decameron |
| Credits | Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 65.3 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | Dutch |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Plague -- Europe -- History -- Fiction |
| Subject | Storytelling -- Fiction |
| Subject | Allegories |
| Subject | Frame stories |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 19591 |
| Release Date | Oct 20, 2006 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jun 7, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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