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The Decameron, subtitled Prince Galeotus, is a book made up of one hundred short stories, some of them short novels, written by Giovanni Boccaccio between 1351 and 1353. It develops three main themes: love, human intelligence and fortune. The various love stories in the Decameron range from erotic to tragic. They are stories of wit, jokes and life lessons.
To link the hundred stories, the book is built as a framed narration. The play begins with a description of the bubonic plague (the black plague epidemic that struck Florence in 1348), giving rise to a group of ten young people (seven women and three men) fleeing the plague, taking refuge in a villa on the outskirts of Florence. Boccaccio probably conceived the Decameron after the epidemic of 1348, and completed it in 1353.
In addition to its literary value and wide influence (for example in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales), it documents the life of the time. Written in the vernacular Florentine dialect, it is considered a masterpiece of early Italian prose.
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The Decameron, subtitled Prince Galeotus, is a book made up of one hundred short stories, some of them short novels, written by Giovanni Boccaccio between 1351 and 1353. It develops three main themes: love, human intelligence and fortune. The various love stories in the Decameron range from erotic to tragic. They are stories of wit, jokes and life lessons.
To link the hundred stories, the book is built as a framed narration. The play begins with a description of the bubonic plague (the black plague epidemic that struck Florence in 1348), giving rise to a group of ten young people (seven women and three men) fleeing the plague, taking refuge in a villa on the outskirts of Florence. Boccaccio probably conceived the Decameron after the epidemic of 1348, and completed it in 1353.
In addition to its literary value and wide influence (for example in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales), it documents the life of the time. Written in the vernacular Florentine dialect, it is considered a masterpiece of early Italian prose.
- Choose between reading at night or during the day.
- Configurable font and size.
- Place markers of your progress.
- Configurable font color and background.
- Configure screen so that it does not turn off while reading.
- Sound when changing pages.
- Interactive index.
- Seeker.
www.leamostodos.com
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