Mrs Rosie and the Priest

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Mrs Rosie and the Priest
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Giovanni Boccaccio
Translated by Peter Hainsworth
SeriesPenguin Little Black Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:64
Dimensions(mm): Height 161,Width 111
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780141397825
ClassificationsDewey:853.1
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publication Date 26 February 2015
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Little Black Classics - the new series to celebrate Penguin's 80th anniversary 'When the men were off somewhere, he would come visiting their wives more solicitously than any priest they'd had before...'

Author Biography

Boccaccio was born in Florence in 1313. He later moved to Naples, where he became part of the circle at court and started writing books. In 1348, he witnessed the plague in Florence, which killed half the city's population and would become the backdrop to his masterpiece,The Decameron. In later life he befriended the poet Petrarch, who left to him in his will an ermine robe to keep him warm when studying on winter nights. Boccaccio died in 1375.