Decameron

About the author

Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was one of the most important figures in the European literary scene of the fourteenth century. Some regard him as the greatest European prose writer of his time.

Dr Susanna Barsella is Professor of Italian at Fordham University, NYC. Her main area of research is in Italian Medieval literature and Early Humanism. She has published on Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Michelangelo and the idea of work from antiquity to the Middle Ages. Her books include The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective (as co-editor).

Product details

• Authors: Giovanni Boccaccio
• Assisted by: Susanna Barsella (Foreword)
• Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.05.2023
• EAN: 9781804173442
• ISBN: 978-1-80417-344-2
• No. of pages: 480
• Series: Gothic Fantasy
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, Folklore, myths & legends, Gothic & Fantasy