14th-century collection of stories by Giovanni Boccaccio

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The architecture of sexuality : body and space in 'The Decameron' / Richard Kuhns.

Framing fiction with death : the seven sages of Rome, Boccaccio's Decameron, and Chaucer's Canterbury tales / by Celia M. Lewis.

The plague as a key to meaning in Boccaccio's 'Decameron' / Aldo S. Bernardo.

Gismonda faints as she receives the heart of her lover Guiscardo on a dish. Etching by C. Gregori after Giovanni da San Giovanni (G. Manozzi) after Boccaccio.

Poesie nach der Pest : der Anfang des Decameron Vorwort Erster Tag: Einleitung, Novelle I-IV Italienisch-Deutsch / Giovanni Boccaccio ; neu übersetzt und erklärt von Kurt Flasch.

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The Decameron

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Poesie nach der Pest : der Anfang des Decameron Vorwort Erster Tag: Einleitung, Novelle I-IV Italienisch-Deutsch / Giovanni Boccaccio ; neu übersetzt und erklärt von Kurt Flasch.

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