The Decameron

Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by Giovanni Paolo Panini, Canaletto and Bernardo Bellotto. Ten young Florentines shut themselves in a country villa to escape the plague of 1348 and tell each other a hundred stories in ten days - merchants, nuns, tricksters and unfaithful wives, told without moralising. Boccaccio had watched the plague take his father and stepmother. The frame is ...