The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio - is the greatest Italian writer of the epoch of Renaissance, who stood at the beginnings of the Renaissance culture together with Petrarch and Dante. Boccaccio laid the foundations of the new poetry, pastorals and epic poems, but the world fame he got thanks to his collection of novels «the Decameron», presented in this book. The title of the book is translated as «ten-day period». Exactly for ten days Boccaccio''s heroes, ten young men and girls, who left their native city because of the epidemics of plague, tell each other anecdotal, magic, fascinating, didactic, tragic and erotic stories.