# Tales from the Decameron

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- Authors: [Giovanni Boccaccio](https://www.bookquiver.com/giovanni-boccaccio)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4119-133-1
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2015-10-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Bawdy and moving, hilarious and reflective - these stories offer the very best of Boccaccio's Decameron in a brilliant, playful new translation. This hugely enjoyable volume collects the best stories of Boccaccio's masterwork in a fresh, accessible new translation by Peter Hainsworth. It includes such celebrated, thought-provoking tales as 'Isabella and the Pot of Basil' (famously adapted by Keats) and 'Patient Griselda' alongside many boisterous and daring stories featuring faithless wives, philandering priests and curious nuns.