The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio was born in Tuscany. He started by writing stories in verse and prose. He was one of the first men to write in the Italian language. Then he fell in love with the girl he named Fiammetta. He wrote Teseide, about a medieval romance. He completed his greatest work, The Decameron, in 1358.

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The Decameron is a combination of one hundred tales. For ten days, ten people, three men and seven ladies, each tell one story. These ten people were trying to escape the effects of the plague. Boccaccio spends an expense of time in the introduction. He does a great job of depicting human behavior and the choices people made during the plague. 

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