Mrs Rosie and the Priest

Resumen del libro

This title contains 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.

Biografía del autor

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) vivió en el turbulento y accidentado siglo XIV. A lo largo de su existencia desempeñó diversos trabajos y también cometidos diplomáticos o representativos. Es una de las figuras principales del humanismo y del Renacimiento nacientes. El "Decamerón" inspiró una de las películas más célebres de Pier Paolo Pasolini.