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Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio
Start Publishing LLC · Hardcover · December 28, 2012
Reading lane: Historical Fiction
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.
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Who It's For
Book Details
- Authors
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- December 28, 2012
- Format
- Hardcover
- Theme
- Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
- Reading lane
- Historical Fiction
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Publisher Categories
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Romance
About This Book
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 book's primary title exemplifies Boccaccio's fondness for Greek philology: Decameron combines two Greek words, Greek: dÈka ("ten") and (Greek: hemÈra ("day"), to form a term that means "ten-day event". Ten days is the time period in which the characters of the frame story tell their tales.
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