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The Decameron

Boccaccio's Tales for an Age

By Kendall Defoe Published 3 years ago • 1 min read
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Was this perfect for our times?

Bought during COVID-19; read at home with quarantine measures and online work around me; glided along the hundred tales (some going too far; others far too simple); respected this classic collection written during its own plague years.

And the women outnumbered the men.

Perfect.

The Happy Ten - from a 1492 Italian edition

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    Written by Kendall Defoe