The Decameron, Boccaccio, Giovanni; McWilliam, G.H. (Translator). Published by The Franklin Library, Pennsylvania, 1981. 749pp. with illustrations by Jose Narro. Black leatherette with gilt design front and spine; all edges gilt; decorative endpapers; reading ribbon. Contents are in fine, unread condition; top edge of front board has a tiny split.
Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron was the first great masterpiece of European storytelling. In the summer of 1348, with the plague ravaging Florence, ten young men and women take refuge in the countryside. There they entertain one another for ten days with tales of love, death, and deception, Named from the Greek for “ten days,” the Decameron draws on ancient mythology, historical events, and everyday life.
