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Fiction, historical, general, Europe, fiction, Fiction, Plague
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.
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“Most gracious ladies, when I think to myself how very pitiful you all are by nature, I have to recognise that you will find this present work has a painful and unpleasant beginning, as the sad memory of the deaths in the recent plague, which my book carries at its forefront, is universally horrible to all who saw it or otherwise knew of it.”
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 sometimes simply known as "the Certaldese" and one of the most important figures in the European literary panorama of the fourteenth century.
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