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Decameron

Name: Decameron
ISBN: 9781625583918

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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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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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.