Decameron
(2012)

Fiction

eBook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Start Publishing LLC, 2012
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1 online resource (764 pages)

ISBN/ISSN
9781625583918 MWT17695143, 1625583915 17695143
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: 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

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