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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Boccaccio, Giovanni | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-21T14:24:31Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2022-03-21T14:24:31Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://tlor.svkos.cz/handle/123456789/462 | - |
dc.description.abstract | In the time of a devastating pandemic, seven women and three men withdraw to a country estate outside Florence to give themselves a diversion from the death around them. Once there, they decide to spend some time each day telling stories, each of the ten to tell one story each day. They do this for ten days, with a few other days of rest in between, resulting in the 100 stories of the Decameron. Translated by John Payne. The Decameron was written after the Black Plague spread through Italy in 1348. Most of the tales did not originate with Boccaccio; some of them were centuries old already in his time, but Boccaccio imbued them all with his distinctive style. The stories run the gamut from tragedy to comedy, from lewd to inspiring, and sometimes all of those at once. They also provide a detailed picture of daily life in fourteenth-century Italy. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Standard Ebooks | en_US |
dc.rights | CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication No Copyright. The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of his or her rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. See more at https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ | en_US |
dc.subject | love | en_US |
dc.subject | Black Plague | en_US |
dc.subject | Middle Age | en_US |
dc.title | The Decameron | en_US |
dc.type | Book | en_US |
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