Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

An hundred pleasantNovels - wittily discoursed, betweeneseaven Honourable Ladies, andthree Noble Gentlemen: The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men sheltering in a secluded villa just outside Florence to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city. Boccaccio probably conceived the Decameron after the epidemic o...