Synopsis While the Black Death rages through 14th-century Florence, ten people in a country house outside the city pass ten days by telling each other stories. Each person tells one tale on a designated topic each day, making for 100 stories in all. The tales encompass many sides of human nature, from the ridiculous to the sublime; many of the tales concern love.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2002-11-01 | | Edition Description: | Reprint |
| Size | | Length: | 810 pages | | Height: | 6.8 in | | Width: | 4.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 13.6 oz |
Publisher's Note Set against the backdrop of the fourteenth-century Black Death, an anthology of one hundred interlinked tales presents a rich variety of colorful works recounted by the citizens of Florence--nobles, knights, abbots, nuns, doctors, philosophers, students, peasants, pilgrims, thieves, and others--who have fled the city to escape the plague. Reprint.
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