Ten Days Talk (Color Illustration Edition)

Author: (Italian) Giovanni Boccaccio
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: The Decameron is a monumental work of realism in the history of Italian literature and a literary work with immense social value in world literature. The renowned Italian 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. Works such as Shakespeare's Cymbeline, Keats's Isabella, and La Fontaine's Fables 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 a celebrated humanist and a scholar fluent in Greek in 14th-century Italy, alongside Dante and Petrarch, known as the "Three Great Masters of the Early Renaissance." 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.