Tales of Firenzuola Author:Agnolo Firenzuola The Tales of Firenzuola present in English translation the ten extant stories of this collection, which are delightful, humorous and realistic pictures of secular, urban life in Tuscany during the Renaissance. The Tales are probably the most popular of Agnolo Firenzuola's prose works. On one side they continued in the popular... more » story-telling tradition of Boccaccio and on the other side the Tales contain the seeds of the developing Italian novel of the sixteenth century. Translated from Italian. Second edition, second printing. Illustrated.« less