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Written by Giovanni Boccaccio - Translated by Richard Aldington - Audio book performed by Stephen Thorne, Nickie Rainsford, Alison Pettit, Teresa Gallagher, Polly Hayes, Siri O'Neal, Johathan Keeble, Daniel Philpott & James Goode - Medieval Italian Music taken from Adorate Deum / Gregorian Chant From The Proper Of The Mass, Chominciamento di gioia, The Black Madonna & Music of the Troubadours - Abridged Selections - Fiction - Abridged by Perry Keenlyside - Produced by Nicolas Soames- 4 COMPACT DISCS - 4 hours, 41 minutes

Publisher, Naxos Audiobooks (December 2000)

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At the time of the plague that ravished Europe in the 1340's, a group of friends in Italy enclosed themselves in a castle in an attempt to survive the maelstrom outside. To pass the time, they told stories; ten stories over a period of ten days. This remarkable collection, with an equally well-known preface, has delighted readers ever since with its wit, bawdiness and invention.

Naxos Audiobooks presents this selection in the lively, no holds barred, translation by the First World War poet Richard Aldington.