[Pocket Edition] World Literature Classics Library - The Decameron

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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: This book is the first great realist work in the history of Italian literature and a literary work with immense social value in world literature. The Decameron tells 100 stories over ten days, featuring romantic entanglements with both joy and sorrow, as well as strange and events from ancient and modern times. Throughout the book, criticism of feudal etiquette, condemnation of asceticism, and promotion of humanism are consistently present from beginning to end. The famous Italian modern critic Santici once ranked The Decameron alongside Dante's The Divine Comedy, calling it "The Human Comedy." He believed that Dante ended an era while Boccaccio began another.