The Decameron
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The Decameron, subtitled Prince Galehaut, is a collection of short stories by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio. It is sometimes nicknamed l'Umana commedia, as it was Boccaccio that d
Illustration from a ca. 1492 edition of Il Decameron published in Venice
Miniature by Taddeo Crivelli in a manuscript of c. 1467 from Ferrara (Bodleian Library, Oxford)
The garden of the Villa Schifanoia in Fiesole, Firenze
A Tale from the Decameron (1916) by John William Waterhouse
Summary of Decameron tales
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This article contains short summaries of the one hundred stories in Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron.
The Decameron
…which they do no work at all, resulting in ten nights of storytelling over the course of two weeks. Thus, by the end of the fortnight they have told 100 stories. Each of the ten characters is charged as King or Queen of the company for one of the ten days in turn. This charge extends to choosing the theme of…
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.