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Dec. 21 : Giovanni Boccaccio



Giovanni Boccaccio - Wikipedia

生年月日： 1313年6月16日
死亡： 1375年12月21日, 
Giovanni Boccaccio died in Certaldo, Republic of Florence on this day in 1375 (aged 62).
"Charming ladies, the beauty of a flock of white doves is better enhanced by a black crow than by a pure white swan."
—from DECAMERON (c 1350) 十日談
In the summer of 1348, with the plague ravaging Florence, ten young men and women take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselves with tales of love, death, and corruption, featuring a host of characters, from lascivious clergymen and mad kings to devious lovers and false miracle-makers. Named after the Greek for “ten days,” Boccaccio’s book of stories draws on ancient mythology, contemporary history, and everyday life, and has influenced the work of myriad writers who came after him. J. G. Nichols’s new translation, faithful to the original but rendered in eminently readable modern English, captures the timeless humor of one of the great classics of European literature. A brilliant new translation of the work that Herman Hesse called “the first great masterpiece of European storytelling.” READ an excerpt from the introduction here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/decameron-by-giovanni…/

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