The title of the book is translated as “ten-day period”. Exactly for ten days Boccaccio's heroes, ten young men and girls, who left their native city because of the epidemics of plague, tell each other anecdotal, magic, fascinating, didactic, tragic and erotic stories.

Il Decameron è ambientato nel 1348, anno in cui la peste nera devastava la città di Firenze. Mentre il caos regna nelle strade, sette giovani donne si riuniscono in chiesa per pregare e cercare di trovare un modo per affrontare la situazione. La pi anziana del gruppo, Pampinea, suggerisce di lasciare la città per evitare il rischio di contagio. In compagnia di tre giovani, la combriccola delle dame abbandona la città e si rifugia in una villa...

Written in the middle of the 14th century as the Bubonic Plague decimated the population of Europe, "The Decameron" is a satirical and allegorical collection of stories by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio. Constructed as a series of "frame stories," or stories within a story, the narrative follows seven young women and three young men who take refuge in a secluded villa outside Florence in order to escape the Black Death. During ten evenings of their...

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.

"Guido Ruggiero brings readers back to Renaissance Florence, capturing how the Decameron sounded to fourteenth-century ears. Giovanni Boccaccio's masterpiece of love, sex, loyalty, and betrayal resonated amid the Black Death and the era's convulsive political change, reimagining truth and virtue in a moment both desperate and full of potential"--