TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boccaccio,Giovanni
AU  - Florio,John
TI  - The Decameron (Day 6 to Day 10): Containing an hundred pleasant Novels
AV  - PQ 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Plague -- Europe -- History -- Fiction
KW  - Storytelling -- Fiction
KW  - Allegories
KW  - Frame stories
N1  - 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.); Original publication data not identified
N2  - "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.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52618
ER  -