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The novels and tales of the renowned John Boccacio, the first refiner of Italian prose : containing a hundred curious novels by seven honourable ladies and three noble gentlemen, framed in ten days
- Author
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
- Preferred Title
- Decamerone.
- Title
- The novels and tales of the renowned John Boccacio, the first refiner of Italian prose : containing a hundred curious novels by seven honourable ladies and three noble gentlemen, framed in ten days.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- The fifth edition, much corrected and amended
- Published
- London : Printed for Awnsham Churchill, at the Black Swan at Amen Corner, 1684.
- Description
- [16], 483, [1] p. ; 31 cm. (fol. in fours)
- Notes
- Spine title: Novels and tales. Caption title: The decameron, containing an hundred pleasant novels. Signatures: Aa. Portrait tipped in on front flyleaf. Pages [264] and [266] blank. Fiction. Short stories.
- References
- BM, v. 22, col. 225. BN, v. 14, col. 618.
- Kinsey subjects
- Social conditions--Italy--Renaissance. Anticlericalism--Renaissance. Extramarital sex behavior.
- Subject headings
- Italy.