01760cam a22003613u 4500 23700 UtSlPG 20260610133538.0 m cr n 260607r2007||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PQ Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375 The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2007 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decameron Release date is 2007-12-03 Ted Garvin, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team "The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio" by Giovanni Boccaccio is a collection of short stories written between 1348 and 1353. Ten young people flee plague-ridden Florence to shelter in a countryside villa, where they pass two weeks by telling one hundred tales. Their stories span love both tragic and erotic, clever wit, practical jokes, and life lessons. Through this frame narrative, Boccaccio creates a mosaic of medieval Italian life while satirizing the Church and exploring themes of fortune, human desire, and social tensions between classes. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Plague -- Europe -- History -- Fiction Storytelling -- Fiction Allegories Frame stories Payne, John, 1842-1916 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23700 64752 64752