The Decameron
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title:
The Decameron
text:
The Decameron, subtitled Prince Galehaut and sometimes nicknamed l'Umana commedia, is a collection of short stories by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375). The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men; they shelter in a secluded villa just outside Florence in order to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city. Boccaccio probably conceived of the Decameron after the epidemic of 1348, an
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description:
14th-century collection of stories by Giovanni Boccaccio
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decameron
date created:
2002-01-02T06:28:28Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T04:10:53Z
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