ID - 95125895 TI - Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron PY - 1991 SN - 0521381827 0521388511 1139166360 9781139166362 9780521381826 9780521388511 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Boccaccio, Giovanni KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature KW - Boccaccio, Giovanni, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:95125895 AB - In Boccaccio's innovative text, ten young people leave Florence to escape the Black Death of 1348, and organize their collective life in the countryside through the pleasure and discipline of story-telling. David Wallace guides the reader through their one hundred novelle, which explore both new and familiar conflicts from private and public spheres of life with unprecedented subtlety, urgency and humour. He emphasises the relationship between Decameron and the precocious vitality of Florentine culture in Boccaccio's time. He also discusses gender issues and the influence of the text particularly on Chaucer and the novel. ER -