The Decameron: Or Ten Days' Entertainment by Giovanni Boccaccio, John Payne, Frederick Davidson

The Decameron: Or Ten Days' Entertainment

Giovanni Boccaccio, John Payne, Frederick Davidson

24 pages first pub 1351 (editions)

fiction classics short stories adventurous slow-paced
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In 1348, the year of the Black Death, a group of ladies and gentlemen escape the dying city of Florence to the hills of Fiesole, where they tell each other stories whose harsh, cynical realism contrasts with their own idyllic setting.

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