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Tales from the Decameron (with illustrations)
Tales from the Decameron - with illustrations Author:Giovanni Boccaccio Edited and with an introduction by Herbert Alexander. — "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 varied themes of the Decameron a... more »re in the grat humanistic tradition of which Boccaccio was a founder. The cultured reader who loves only the finest will find it one of the richest and most diverting of all great books."
This edition contains ten illustrations by Mac Harshberger,« less