About the book: 1972 / Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) - Italian humanist writer of the early Renaissance, who reflected in his works not only a multi-colored panorama of Italian morals, but also the concept social ethics of the new society. The work of Boccaccio had a great influence on the further development of realism not only in the literature of the Renaissance, but also later - in the 17th and 18th centuries. The second volume of Selected Works of Boccaccio included the “Decameron” (end), as well as the “small works” of the writer, which our time are of keen interest to the modern reader.