Tuesday, September 15, 2020

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

The DecameronThe Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Took me nearly 4 months to get through it because it is so long. It's a good quarantine read as the main characters are themselves in a bit of a quarantine bubble. There are a hundred stories of varying quality, but some of them were cheerful and bawdy. The tenth day of stories was a bit of a bummer though as things got even more misogynistic and cruel towards the end, especially with the husband that tortured the wife for years and is presented as wise for doing so.

View all my reviews

No comments:

Post a Comment

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...