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"The Decameron, Volume I" 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 two weeks telling one hundred tales. These stories range from erotic to tragic love, clever wit, practical jokes, and life lessons. The work satirizes the clergy, explores fortune's power, and captures tensions between social classes. Written in vernacular Florentine, it became a masterpiece of early Italian prose and influenced works like Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales." (This is an automatically generated summary.) ... Read more Show less

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Author	Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
Translator	Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen), 1855-1926
Title	The Decameron, Volume I
Note	Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decameron
Credits	This etext was produced by Donna Holsten
Reading Level	Reading ease score: 55.1 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read.
Language	English
LoC Class	PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject	Plague -- Europe -- History -- Fiction
Subject	Storytelling -- Fiction
Subject	Allegories
Subject	Frame stories
Category	Text
eBook-No.	3726
ISBN (HTML)	979-8-238-03726-4
Release Date	Feb 1, 2003
Last Update	Jan 8, 2021
Copyright	Public domain in the USA.
Downloads	1822 downloads in the last 30 days.

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