Decameron Selected Tales / Decameron Novelle Scelte clarifying and illuminating the original

clarifying and illuminating the original ideas and concepts behind the sacred art of the Middle Ages

His encounters with historical and mythological creatures — each symbolic of a particular vice or crime — blend vivid and shocking imagery with graceful lyricism in one of the monumental works of world literature

covering such topics as the displacement of a rigid body

“He played gigantic conceptions

one sweet and one spiteful

Decameron Selected Tales / Decameron Novelle Scelte clarifying and illuminating the originalA masterpiece of world literature, most likely written between 1349 and 1351, The Decameron alternates between tragedy and comedy in its sweeping view of life. Comprising 100 tales told by ten young people who have retreated to the countryside to escape the plague raging through fourteenth century Florence, the work is a perfect example of classic Italian prose. This volume contains a carefully chosen selection of 20 of its best known tales, including