It was then sprayed with an electrically conductive coating. more paraffin or carnuba wax and left to harden. It required special attention to the amounts of electrical current used and the composition of the plating solution. Bronze clad was a very expensive and time consuming process. Pompeian did not take over the company until 1920. There is also a similar set that is larger and in the same style called" Ridin High" circa 1925. You can see this by their size because in the early 1900's books and bookends were much smaller. Before the employees of Paul Mori purchased the company and changed the name to Pompeian Bronze. Ultra-rare and are not listed in any leading bookend. This Italian book, written in 1351, inspired Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Balzac, and remains one of the most enjoyable anįrom my personal collection.This is only the second time I have ever seen this set in my many years of collecting. These young unmarried nobles, the"beautiful people" of the age, decide to wait out the Florentine plague in their country estates, amusing each other every evening with earthy stories, some outright bawdy, others pointing to a moral. Recounted by young citizens of Florence who have fled the city in order to escape the plague. PUBLISHER REVIEW: REVIEW: The Decameron is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death. PLEASE SEE IMAGES BELOW FOR JACKET DESCRIPTION(S) AND FOR PAGES OF PICTURES FROM INSIDE OF BOOK. CONDITION: Shelf wear and soiling to Dust Jacket.
The book ends with the refugees returning to their homes, and a closing epilogue from the author.
At the beginning of the first day, Boccaccio provides an excellent and detailed description of the plague itself. To occupy themselves during this time, they tell each other stories, with each person telling one story per day to make a total of 100 stories over the course of the entire book. The story itself concerns ten young Florentines(seven women- Pampinea, Filomena, Neifile, Fiammetta, Elissa, Lauretta, and Emilia and three men- Panfilo, Dioneo, and Filostrato) who flee the city in hopes of escaping the plague.
Boccaccio begins, in the prologue, by stating his purpose for writing the book- namely, to entertain literate women with nothing else to do with their time. It concerns the first major outbreak of the black plague in Europe, which emerged in Italy in approximately 1347. more The Modern Library 1955) The Decameron' is a fascinating example of classic literature that remains fresh and entertaining today. DESCRIPTION: Hardcover with Dust Jacket: 666 pages. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Translated by Frances Winwar- Complete and Unabridged.
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