{"product_id":"the-decameron-1","title":"The Decameron","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Decameron (c.1351) was written in the wake of the Black Death, a shattering epidemic which had shaken Florence's confident entrepreneurial society to its core. In a country villa outside the city, ten young noble men and women who have escaped the plague decide to tell each other stories. Boccaccio's skill as a dramatist is masterfully displayed in this virtuoso performance of one hundred tales, vivid portraits of people from all stations in life, with plots which revel in a bewildering variety of human reactions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThemes are playfully restated from one story to another within an elegant and refined framework. One of Chaucer's most fruitful sources for the Canterbury Tales, Boccaccio's work artfully combines the essential ingredients of narrative: fate and desire, crises and quick-thinking. This new translation by Guido Waldman captures the exuberance and variety and tone of Boccaccio's masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublished: UK, 2008\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003ePages: 698\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 0199540411\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN 13: 9780199540419\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Giovanni Boccaccio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51232141705482,"sku":"","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9780199540419.jpg?v=1747824971","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/the-decameron-1","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}