The Stone of Invisibility
Unabridged Audiobook
Written By: Giovanni Boccaccio
Narrated By: Cassandra Campbell
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Date: December 2013
Duration: 0 hours 15 minutes
Summary:
The most enduring work by the Renaissance humanist Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron is a collection of one hundred stories about ten young noblemen and noblewomen who escape the plague by moving to a country villa outside the Italian city of Florence. Highly influential, numerous writers have borrowed from Boccaccio’s tales, including Edgar Allen Poe, John Keats, and George Eliot.
In “The Stone of Invisibility,” the nobleman Calandrino, as well as his friends Bruno and Buffalmacco, visit the coast in search of the magical bloodstone. Calandrino’s wife, however, spoils the fun …
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