"The Decameron, Volume I" by Giovanni Boccaccio is a collection of stories shared by a group of ten young people seeking shelter from the Black Death in the countryside. To escape the grim reality of the plague, these seven women and three men entertain each other for ten days by recounting stories filled with love, trickery, humor, and important life lessons. Beginning with a look into the terrible plague, seven noble women and three young men decide to use storytelling as comfort. The initial story is about Ser Ciappelletto. He was a wicked man who tricked a friar into thinking that he was a saint. With irony, truth, and morality, Boccaccio explores the lives of his varied characters.
The Decameron, Volume I
By Giovanni Boccaccio
Escaping a deadly plague, ten spirited youths trade tales of love, wit, and deception in a vibrant retreat from death's shadow.
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About the AuthorGiovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was sometimes simply known as "the Certaldese" and one of the most important figures in the European literary panorama of the fourteenth century. Some scholars define him as the greatest European prose writer of his time, a versatile writer who amalgamated different literary trends and genres, making them converge in original works, thanks to a creative activity exercised under the banner of experimentalism.
Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was sometimes simply known as "the Certaldese" and one of the most important figures in the European literary panorama of the fourteenth century. Some scholars define him as the greatest European prose writer of his time, a versatile writer who amalgamated different literary trends and genres, making them converge in original works, thanks to a creative activity exercised under the banner of experimentalism.
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