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Contes de J. Bocace.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Foreign Imprints 1791 Boccaccio
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
- Standardized Title:
- Decamerone. French
- Language:
- French
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Plague--Europe--History--Fiction.
- Plague.
- Storytelling--Fiction.
- Storytelling.
- Genre:
- Allegories.
- Frame-stories.
- Physical Description:
- 10 v. ; 14 cm.
- Edition:
- Traduction nouvelle.
- Place of Publication:
- A Londres : [s.n.], 1791.
- Summary:
- This collection of tales is set in 1348, the year of the Black Death. Florence is a dying, corrupt city, described plainly in all of its horrors. Seven ladies and three gentlemen meet in a church and decide to escape from the charnel house of reality by staying in the hills of Fiesole; there they pass the time telling stories for ten days.
- Notes:
- The imprint is false; probably printed in Paris.
- Translation of: Decamerone.
- Headpieces, tailpieces.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum has v. 1-6, placed in a single archival box.
- Athenaeum copy: Breck bequest.
- OCLC:
- 58781267
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