May 2022
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (select stories)
featuring Maggie Fritz-Morkin, Assistant Professor of Italian Winner of the 2014 PEN USA Literary Award for Translation —A towering monument of European literature and a masterpiece of imaginative narrative. —Penguin Classics —The Decameron is a joyously comic book that has earned its place in world literature not just because it makes us laugh, but more importantly because it shows us how essential laughter is to the human condition. —W. W. Norton —"The greatest short story collection of all time.”…
Find out more »The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (select stories)
featuring Maggie Fritz-Morkin, Assistant Professor of Italian Winner of the 2014 PEN USA Literary Award for Translation —A towering monument of European literature and a masterpiece of imaginative narrative. —Penguin Classics —The Decameron is a joyously comic book that has earned its place in world literature not just because it makes us laugh, but more importantly because it shows us how essential laughter is to the human condition. —W. W. Norton —"The greatest short story collection of all time.”…
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