Anthony Mortimer: Italian Renaissance Tales (Oxford World's Classics) [2019] paperback Condition:New Acclaimed chef

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Anthony Mortimer: Italian Renaissance Tales (Oxford World's Classics) [2019] paperback Condition:New Acclaimed chef'Thus she was decapitated, and this was the end to which she was brought by her unbridled lusts.' For over two centuries after Boccaccio's groundbreaking Decameron, the Italian novella exercised a crucial influence over European prose fiction. With thirty nine stories by nineteen authors, many translated for the first time, this anthology presents tales from the whole genre and period. Here we meet a rich cast of humble peasants and shrewd craftsmen,