The Decameron is a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375).
Tales of love, wit, practical jok.
Boccaccio probably conceived of The Decameron after the epidemic of 1348, and completed it by 1353.
The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men; they shelter in a secluded villa just outside Florence in order to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city.
The Decameron is a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)