Boccace

1930 · Best.-Nr. B6546 — New York: Doubleday & Company. Inc. 1930. A very handsome example. . Binding: contemporary full blue paper boards title in gilt on flat spine spine with gilt ruling and decorative gilt motifs upper board with decorative gilt ruling and gilt central devices. Notes: Giovanni Boccaccio 1313 – 1375 was an Italian writer poet correspondent of Petrarch and an important Renaissance humanist. He was known par excellence as the Certaldese and one of the most important figures in the European literary panorama of the fourteenth century. Some scholars including Vittore Branca define him as the greatest European prose writer of his time a versatile writer who amalgamated different literary trends and genres making them converge in original works thanks to a creative activity exercised under the banner of experimentalism. Size: 8vo. Transation: Translated by Richar Category: Book Literature; Doubleday & Company. Inc. hardcover