Giovanni Boccaccio | Portland Book Review

The Decameron

by Site Owner | Feb 10, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction

The Italian Canterbury Tales By Giovanni Boccaccio, Translated by Wayne A. Rebhorn W. W. Norton & Company, $39.95, 947 pages As the bubonic plague swept through Florence, Italy in 1348 and claimed the lives of 75 percent of the population, Giovanni Boccaccio began...

The Decameron

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