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Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
In the summer of 1348, the plague ravages Florence, and ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselves with tales of love, death and corruption, featuring a host of colourful characters, from lascivious clergymen and mad kings to devious lovers and false miracle-ma ...Show more
Genealogy of the Pagan Gods by Jon (EDT) Giovanni; Solomon Boccaccio
$52.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: I Tatti Renaissance Library
Genealogy of the Pagan Gods by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) is an ambitious work of humanistic scholarship whose goal is to plunder ancient and medieval literary sources so as to create a massive synthesis of Greek and Roman mythology. The work also contains a famous defense of the value of studying a ...Show more
Genealogy of the Pagan Gods : Books I-V by Jon (EDT) Giovanni; Solomon Boccaccio
$73.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: I Tatti Renaissance Library
Tales from the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Bawdy and moving, hilarious and reflective - these stories offer the very best of Boccaccio's Decameron in a brilliant, playful new translation. This hugely enjoyable volume collects the best stories of Boccaccio's masterwork in a fresh, accessible new translation by Peter Hainsworth. It includes such c ...Show more
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
$8.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Decameron (c.1351) was written in the wake of the Black Death, a shattering epidemic which had shaken Florence's confident entrepreneurial society to its core. In a country villa outside the city, ten young noble men and women who have escaped the plague decide to tell each other stories. Boccaccio' ...Show more
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