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100 1 _aBoccaccio, Giovanni,
_d1313-1375
245 1 4 _aThe Decameron, Volume I
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2003
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decameron
500 _aRelease date is 2003-02-01
508 _aThis etext was produced by Donna Holsten
520 _a"The Decameron, Volume I" 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. These stories range from erotic to tragic love, clever wit, practical jokes, and life lessons. The work satirizes the clergy, explores fortune's power, and captures tensions between social classes. Written in vernacular Florentine, it became a masterpiece of early Italian prose and influenced works like Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales." (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aPlague -- Europe -- History -- Fiction
653 _aStorytelling -- Fiction
653 _aAllegories
653 _aFrame stories
700 1 _aRigg, J. M.
_q(James Macmullen),
_d1855-1926
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3726
999 _c45772
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