Decameron
| Authors | Boccaccio, Giovanni Payne, John |
| Tags | Criticism, Europe, Classics, Historical, Storytelling, Classic fiction, Fiction, Literary, General & Literary Fiction, Plague, Literature: Classics, Florence (Italy), Literature: Texts, Literature - Classics, General, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), History |
| Publisher | Penguin Classics |
| Published | 14 gen 1353 |
| Date | 22 giu 2015 |
| Languages | eng |
| Identifiers | uri: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23700, isbn: 9780140449303, oclc: 1149521429 |
| Formats | EPUB |
Description
Boccaccio was a humanist, but, according to J. Dunn's article on him, "his [satirical] jibes and anecdotes at the expense of clerics did not impair his belief in the teachings of the Church."
MP4 = abridged audiobook
SUMMARY: Translated with an Introduction and Notes by G. H. McWilliam
Boccaccio, one of the greatest satirists of Italian literature, wrote a story illustrating the sanctity of the Church despite a sinful clergy in his Decameron day 1, story 2.