Decameron
(2019)

Fiction

eBook

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Dancing Unicorn Books, 2019
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ISBN/ISSN
9781515440581 (electronic bk.) MWT14314792, 1515440583 (electronic bk.) 14314792
LANGUAGE
English
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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: déka ("ten") and (Greek: hēméra ("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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