Ten Days Talk (Full Translation with Illustrations)

Author: (Italian) Giovanni Boccaccio
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Publish Date: 2005-11-01
Features: The Decameron is the first realist masterpiece in the history of Italian literature and a literary work of great social value in world literature. The famous Italian modern critic Santici once ranked The Decameron alongside Dante's The Divine Comedy, calling it "The Human Comedy." The Decameron has had a profound influence on later writers. Shakespeare's Cymbeline, Keats's Isabella, and La Fontaine's Fables all drew inspiration from The Decameron, while Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron borrowed its framework and artistic conception. Boccaccio was an outstanding novelist and poet during the Italian Renaissance, the first Italian scholar to master Greek, and is known as one of the "Three Greats of Early Renaissance" alongside Dante and Petrarch. For his success in creating The Decameron, he was also hailed as the "Father of the Modern European Short Story." Selected for the "100 World Classics" list recommended by the American Readers' Guide to Good Books. Featured in the French L'Express magazine's "Personal Ideal Library" list.