the decameron

     

This collection of 100 tales begins with 10 young people escaping plague-ridden Florence in 1348

Trivia about the decameron

  • Queen Marguerite of Navarre wrote the "Heptameron", a collection of tales widely compared to this Boccaccio work
  • Boccaccio work narrated by 3 men & 7 women fleeing the plague in Florence
  • Shakespeare's "Cymbelline" is based in part on a story from this 14th c. work by Bocaccio
  • In this 14th century Boccaccio work, 3 men & 7 women flee to the countryside to escape the plague
  • 10 people fleeing Florence to escape the plague each tell 10 tales in this Boccaccio book
  • Giovanni Boccaccio's 1353 collection of tales