Boccaccio By Thomas G Bergin

1981 Hardcover

1st Edition

Dust Jacket

The Viking Press

Very Good Condition

Biography-Author

Boccaccio is a 1981 critical biography of the foundational 14th-century Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio, written by the American scholar, translator, and Yale University professor Thomas G. Bergin. Published by The Viking Press, the book serves as a comprehensive introduction to Boccaccio’s life, times, and entire literary catalog. It is specifically noted for highlighting his forgotten treatises and poems alongside his legendary masterpiece, The Decameron