Decameron, collection of tales by Giovanni Boccaccio, probably composed between 1349 and 1353. The work is regarded as a masterpiece of classical Italian prose. While romantic in tone and form, it breaks from medieval sensibility in its insistence on the human ability to overcome, even exploit, fortune.

A young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns in the Middle Ages. Introduced as a deaf blind man, he must fight to hold his cover as the nuns try to resist temptation.

The Decameron is one of the greatest literary works of the Middle Ages. Ten young people have fled the terrible effects of the Black Death in Florence and, in an idyllic setting, tell a series of brilliant stories, by turns humorous, bawdy, tragic and provocative. This celebration of physical and sexual vitality is Boccaccio's answer to the sublime other-worldliness of Dante's Divine Comedy.

The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death. The stories are told in a country villa outside the city of Florence by ten young noble men and women who are seeking to escape the ravages of the plague. Boccaccio's skill as a dramatist is masterfully displayed in these vivid portraits of people from all stations in life, with plots that revel in a bewildering variety of human reactions....

The 'Decameron', also called 'Prince Galehaut', is a 14th-century medieval allegory by Giovanni Boccaccio, told as a frame story encompassing 100 tales by ten young people. The book's primary title exemplifies Boccaccio's fondness for Greek philology: Decameron combines two Greek words, Greek: déka ("ten") and (Greek: hēméra ("day"), to form a term that means "ten-day event". Ten days is the time-period in which the characters of the frame story...

The plague struck the City of Florence in 1348. A contemporary poet and writer, Giovanni Boccaccio, imagined a group of fashionable young people fleeing the plague and spending a "lockdown" on an estate in the Tuscan countryside. They entertained themselves by telling stories. Of course, the tales were all written by Boccaccio himself and he published them in 1354 under the title The Decameron. When the Covid-19 pandemic produced lockdown in Cape...

Naxos Audio presents sixteen tales from one of the greatest works of the Middle Ages, The Decameron. Ten young people have fled the terrible effects of the Black Death in Florence. Now, hiding away in an idyllic setting, the individuals share a series of stories, some humorous, bawdy, tragic, or provocative, but all truly brilliant.

In Boccaccio's Decamerone (1353), set during the 1348 Black Death epidemic in Florence, a group of men and women confined themselves to a villa in the hills outside the city and entertained one another by telling stories. Written nearly seven centuries later during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, this volume brings together stories written during lockdown by students at the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at The Open University, UK. Drawing...

A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from 29 authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decameron." When reality is surreal, only fiction can make sense of it. As the coronavirus pandemic swept the world, The New York Times Magazine asked 29 authors to write new short...

The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes by W. G. Waters. libreka classics — These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!