- Decameron - Boccaccio Jean - Books

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  • comic and anti-moralist  

    Decameron (Paperback)
    30 stories where deception and dishonesty (sometimes cruel) are rewarded. It's funny and disrespectful. Beyond the content of the stories, it is surprising modernity: distance with respect to Christian morality, sexual freedom, questioning the social
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    Decameron (Paperback)
    Venice at the time of the plague, ten young men temporarily leave the city. Every day they retire ten days each two tells a story. Far from frozen filing that one can have of the Middle Ages, the author spreads before us a happy world of powerful fee
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  • love and Decameron  

    Decameron (Paperback)
    This excellent work of Boccaccio exhibits love in all its forms. Indeed we find many ribald love but also of courtly love. Boccaccio also wants to show us the status of women in the late Middle Ages. This book is a must read for lovers of innuendo an
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