Summary of Decameron tales
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This article contains short summaries of the one hundred stories in Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron.
A Tale from The Decameron (1916), by John William Waterhouse
The basilica of Santa Maria Novella, with a Renaissance façade that was completed about 100 years after The Decameron was written
Equestrian statue of Can Grande della Scala
The Ponte Vecchio, which was brand new in Boccaccio's time, in Florence. The city is the setting of many stories of the Decameron.
Giovanni Boccaccio
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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 sometime
Summary of Decameron tales
…This article contains short summaries of the one hundred stories in Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron. In the book's introduction, Boccaccio begins with a graphic description of the Black Death and its devastating effects on the population…
Posthumous portrait by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
1845 statue of Boccaccio by Fantacchiotti in Uffizi Gallery
Boccaccio and others fleeing the plague; illumination of a French edition of the Decamerone (c. 1485)
Circes: illustration of one of the women featured in the 1374 biographies of 106 famous women, De Claris Mulieribus, by Boccaccio – from a German translation of 1541