The Boccaccio, Giovanni 1313-1375 creator Payne, John 1842-1916 text utu 2007 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) 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 Original publication data not identified Plague -- Europe -- History -- Fiction Storytelling -- Fiction Allegories Frame stories PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23700 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23700 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133538.0 23700