The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio : Kessinger Publishing : 9781169807679 : 1169807674 : 10 Sep 2010 : The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio is a collection of 100 novellas written by the Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio in the 14th century. The book is set during the Black Death pandemic in Florence, Italy, and follows a group of ten young people who flee to a villa outside the city to escape the disease. To pass the time, they each tell stories over the course of ten days, with a different person telling a story each day. The stories cover a wide range of topics, from love and romance to trickery and deceit, and are often humorous and bawdy in nature. The Decameron is considered a masterpiece of Italian literature and is renowned for its vivid portrayal of life in medieval Italy, as well as its influence on later literary works such as Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.Here beginneth the book called Decameron and surnamed Prince Galahalt wherein are contained a hundred stories in the ten da