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Selections from The Decameron

7 Ratings

3.4

Duration
4H 41min
Language
English
Format
Category

Fiction

Here are sixteen tales from one of the great works of the Middle Ages. Ten young people have fled for a while the terrible effects of the Black Death in Florence and, in an idyllic setting, tell a series of brilliant stories, by turns humorous, bawdy, tragic and provocative. This celebration of physical and sexual vitality is Boccaccio’s answer to the sublime other worldliness of Dante’s Divine Comedy…

© 2014 Naxos Audiobooks (Audiobook): 9789629544614

Release date

Audiobook: May 1, 2014

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