Ten tales from the Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

Author

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.

Preferred Title

Decamerone

Title

Ten tales from the Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio / illustrated by Edmondo Lucchesi.

Format

Book

Published

London : Privately printed [by Greycaine Limited], 1937.

Description

88 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.

Other contributors

Lucchesi, Edmondo.

Notes

"The text of these tales is based on the anonymous translation of 1741, which was revised by S.W. Orson in 1896; the illustrations are printed from linocuts by Edmondo Lucchesi ..."

Kinsey subjects

Social conditions--Italy--Renaissance.
Anticlericalism--Renaissance.
Extramarital sex behavior.

Subject headings

Italy.

Genre heading

Fiction.