Giovanni Boccaccio

Bawdy tales of pimps, cuckolds, lovers and clever women from the fourteenth-century Florentine masterpiece The Decameron.

Mrs Rosie and the Priest

Four hilarious and provocative stories from Boccaccio's Decameron, featuring cuckolded husbands, cross-dressing wives and very bad priests. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375). Boccaccio's Decameron is available in Penguin Classics in both a complete and selected edition.

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Ruud Gras

This book is fun to read. It contains only 4 stories from the Decamerone. In its time it must have been daring. Sexual morale is the main theme. All 4 are written in a very amusing way. The excellent translation makes the reading of such old texts easy. 

Andrew Sztehlo

Weird horny strange funny stories from 14th century Florence? More of this please.

Mrs Rosie and the Priest

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