1924 Decameron

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

German language. Two volumes. Volume one is illustrated with colour frontispiece and nine coloured plates. Volume two is illustrated with colour frontispiece and seven coloured plates. Collated complete. A collection of one hundred tales told by a group of seven women and three men as they shelter in a secluded villa outside of Florence to attempt to escape the Black Death as it hit the city. Written in the vernacular of the Florentine language, it is considered a masterpiece of early Italian prose. Written by Giovanni Boccaccio, an Italian writer, poet, and important Renaissance humanist who is said to have dubbed Dante's Comedy "Divine." Illustrated by Lucian Zable, a German artist and illustrator.