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The Decameron
Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
Narrator: Unknown
Unabridged: 21 hr 48 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Published: Not Available
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Synopsis
Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron is a collection of novellas or short novels written during the 14th century. There are 100 tales contained in the book which is presented together. The book's title The Decameron combines the two Greek words "deka" meaning ten and "hemera" meaning day. The title can be literally translated as "ten day," which is also the time frame in which the stories are told by the 7 young women and 3 young men.
In the book, each of the ten persons took their turns to tell stories for a day. They did this during their stay at a villa in Fiesole in which they stayed to be safe from the Black Plague. The stories they told vary from love stories, narratives which have tragic endings to erotic tales. This book was originally written in vernacular Florentine and was subsequently translated into many different languages including English. Wayne Reborns recent translation of the book into English in 2013 was praised by many critics for being "modern" and it made the book more "readable" to younger audiences.
In the book, each of the ten persons took their turns to tell stories for a day. They did this during their stay at a villa in Fiesole in which they stayed to be safe from the Black Plague. The stories they told vary from love stories, narratives which have tragic endings to erotic tales. This book was originally written in vernacular Florentine and was subsequently translated into many different languages including English. Wayne Reborns recent translation of the book into English in 2013 was praised by many critics for being "modern" and it made the book more "readable" to younger audiences.