The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio

Jan 2017 · Naxos of America, Inc. · Narrated by Simon Russell Beale, Daisey Badger, Carly Bawden, Lucy Briggs-Owen, Gunnar Cauthery, Alison Pettitt, Nigel Pilkington, Katie Scarfe, Natalie Simpson, Flora Spencer-Longhurst and David Sturzaker

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The Decameron is one of the greatest literary works of the Middle Ages. Ten young people have fled the terrible effects of the Black Death in Florence and, in an idyllic setting, tell a series of brilliant stories, by turns humorous, bawdy, tragic and provocative. This celebration of physical and sexual vitality is Boccaccio's answer to the sublime other-worldliness of Dante's Divine Comedy.

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