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Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio

Form
Form Short Story Collection
Year
Year 1353
Originally in
Originally in Italian
Pages
Pages 800

Ten Florentines flee a plague ravaging their city and shut themselves in a country villa, where each tells one story a night for ten nights, on love, luck and lust, until the sickness passes.

A kindly thing it is to have compassion of the afflicted
Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio

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