Selections from The Decameron, Boccaccio
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Selections from The Decameron

Author: Boccaccio

Abridged: 4 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 05/01/2006


Synopsis

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…

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