Decameron-Full Color and Illustrated-Hardcover

Trying to escape the plague epidemic that shook Europe with mass deaths in the summer of 1348, a group of seven young women and three young men left the city and set out to seek refuge in the countryside of Florence. In order to entertain each other and continue the journey, each of them will tell ten stories, ranging from love stories to heroic adventures, for ten days. These hundred stories told in total serve as a compilation that reveals the complex and rich daily life of the Middle Ages. Decameron is, as Leonard Barkan from Princeton University said, "the best short story anthology of all time." Decameron, the masterpiece of Boccaccio, who is considered the first storyteller of world literature and the father of prose in Italian literature, is a powerful prose piece.

“I was 16 years old when I read Decameron, and I was very pleased that most of the 10 storytellers were women… This author, known as the father of modern storytelling, introduced seven wonderful female narrators. So there was something to hope for.”

–Elena Ferrante

"The first great masterpiece of European storytelling."

–Hermann Hesse

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 825

Size: 14 x 21.5

First Print Year: 2020

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Language Turkish