01860cam a22003613u 4500 52618 UtSlPG 20260610134219.0 m cr n 260607r2016||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PQ Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375 The Decameron (Day 6 to Day 10) : Containing an hundred pleasant Novels Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2016 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 2016-07-22 Produced by Clare Graham and Marc D'Hooghe (Images generously made available by the Internet Archive.) "The Decameron (Day 6 to Day 10)" by Giovanni Boccaccio is a collection of short stories written between 1348 and 1353. Ten young people flee plague-ridden Florence to a countryside villa, where they pass time telling tales. This frame story encompasses 100 narratives ranging from erotic love to tragedy, wit to practical jokes. The stories mock clergy greed, explore lust and ambition across genders, examine class tensions, and follow merchant adventures. Written in vernacular Florentine, the work satirizes medieval allegory while entertaining with life lessons and comedy. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Plague -- Europe -- History -- Fiction Storytelling -- Fiction Allegories Frame stories Florio, John, 1553?-1625 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52618 93452 93452