Boccaccio comenzó a componer hacia 1361 su tratado latino «De mulieribus claris (Mujeres preclaras)» que retocó hasta poco antes de su muerte. En este tratado culmina un aspecto de su pensamiento que aparece también en...
Mientras Petrarca concentraba todo su esfuerzo en la impresionante arquitectura de su «Canzoniere» ajustando su vida a un proyecto de espiritualidad, Boccaccio reafirmaba su ideología literaria, mucho más a ras de tierra, volvien...
The Decameron, also called Prince Galehaut, is a 14th-century medieval allegory by Giovanni Boccaccio, told as a frame story encompassing 100 tales by ten young people. The books primary title exemplifies Boccaccios fondness for Greek philology: Decameron...
While the plague ravishes major cities, a group of Italian men and women seek shelter at a countryside estate telling stories to pass the time . Giovanni Boccaccioâs imaginative writing style elevates the multilayered novellas ranging...
The Decameron (or Decamerone), subtitled Prince Galehaut (Old Italian: Prencipe Galeotto) and sometimes nicknamed lUmana commedia ("the Human comedy"), is a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)....
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Written in the middle of the 14th century as the Bubonic Plague decimated the population of Europe, âThe Decameronâ is a satirical and allegorical collection of stories by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio. Constructed...