Il Decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio, Cittadino Fiorentino. Firenze (Florence): Presso Leonardo Ciardetti, 1825.
Complete in four large octavo volumes. Text in Italian Portrait frontispiece in volume I. Contemporary green morocco backstrip over marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt, marbled endleaves. Spines slightly darkened, some minor wear to edges, hinges just barely starting (yet still solid). Very good.
Boccaccio (1313-1321(?) - 1375) was an Italian author, poet, humanist, most famous for his poetry, and, of course, The Decameron (1349-1352). The Decameron is a medieval allegorical work, collected in one hundred small novellas, some being bawdy, some being tragic, some erotic, not unlike the Canterbury Tales. Like Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, it, too, has a framing device, which surrounds the main body of the tales and unifies.
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