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Prince Galehaut
l’Umana commedia
ARTWORK: THE DECAMERON OF PETRU RUSU
DECAMERON INTRODUCTIO
THE ONE HUNDRED AND ONE NOVELL ON
HOW NATURAL IT IS FOR A MAN TO ENJOY A
WOMAN’S COMPANY
1985 HAND COLORED ETCHING
AQUATINTA AQUAFORTE 21X29 CM | 8½X11½ IN
The Decameron (c.1351) subtitled
Prince Galehaut and sometimes
nicknamed l’Umana commedia, is
a collection of novellas by the
14th-century Italian author Giovanni
Boccaccio is the most enjoyable
anthologies of 100 stories ever
composed in the wake of the Black
Death (c.1348-1353) on 100 symbolic-
oneiric etching interpretations by
Petru Rusu (c.1984 -1986).
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