This Baroque-inspired design comes from a 1725 binding of The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. Boccaccio, an Italian writer and poet, helped lay the foundations of Renaissance humanism. With its scope from humour to tragedy and its vivid narrative structure, The Decameron remains an affirmation of humanity and moral values. Each journal is smyth sewn with book edge printing and has a ribbon marker, pouch and elastic closure.