Tales from the Decameron Author:Giovanni Boccaccio With prodigious brilliance, Giovanni Boccaccio captured the humor and pathos of man's folly. His robust masterpiece of the literary art reflects a world that is both toilsome and boisterously gay, peopled with characters who are always vibrantly alive. The varies themes of the Decameron are in the great humanistic tradition of which Bocaccio w... more »as a founder. The cultured reader who loves only the finest will find it on of the richest and most diverting of all great books.« less