The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio ; translated G.H. McWilliam ; with the woodcuts of José Narro
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The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio ; translated G.H. McWilliam ; with the woodcuts of José Narro
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eng
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fiction
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The Decameron
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Giovanni Boccaccio ; translated G.H. McWilliam ; with the woodcuts of José Narro
Summary
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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adult
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