The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio is a collection of 100 novellas written by the Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio in the 14th century. The book is set during the Black Death pandemic in Florence, Italy, and follows a group of ten young people who flee to a villa outside the city to escape the disease. To pass the time, they each tell stories over the course of ten days, with a different person telling a story each day. The stories cover a wide range of topics, from love and romance to trickery and deceit, and are often humorous and bawdy in nature. The Decameron is considered a masterpiece of Italian literature and is renowned for its vivid portrayal of life in medieval Italy, as well as its influence on later literary works such as Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.Here beginneth the book called Decameron and surnamed Prince Galahalt wherein are contained a hundred stories in the ten days told by seven ladies and three young men.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.