by Giovanni Boccaccio

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Original Title: Decamerone

Author: Giovanni Boccaccio

Genres: Fiction, Frame story, Novellas

Publisher: Madness Serial Publishing

File version: 1.0

The Decameron is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death. The stories are told in a country villa outside the city of Florence by ten young noble men and women seeking to escape the ravages of the plague.

Boccaccio brings these stories alive with the authentic language of the different social classes and frank, realistic character handling. His satire often bites deep, yet he embraces evil and holiness alike with sympathy and tolerance, leaving guilty characters to condemn themselves.

Like Dante’s Divine Comedy, The Decameron is a monumental work of medieval pre-Renaissance literature.

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