Decameron (Abridged)

by Giovanni Boccaccio Narrated by Stephen Thorne, Full Cast

Overview

Here are sixteen tales from one of the great works of the Middle Ages. Ten young people have fled for a while the terrible effects of the Black Death in Florence and, in an idyllic setting, tell a series of brilliant stories, by turns humorous, bawdy, tragic and provocative. This celebration of physical and sexual vitality is Boccaccio's answer to the sublime other-worldliness of Dante's Divine Comedy...

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169941562
Publisher:	Naxos Audiobooks
Publication date:	04/01/2010
Edition description:	Abridged

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