The Decameron
Ten young Florentines flee the pestilence of 1348 for a villa in the hills and pass ten days telling a hundred tales of merchants, nuns, tricksters, cuckolds and lovers, each day under an elected ruler and a set theme. The frame opens with an unflinching account of the plague in the city they have left. Written in a Tuscan prose that became the model for Italian style, it gave Chaucer his frame and several of his tales, and Shakespeare and Keats their plots.
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- influenced by ↑ The Golden Ass
- ↓ The Canterbury Tales
- ↓ The School for Wives
- ↓ Isabella, or the Pot of Basil
- ↓ Exemplary Novels
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