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Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron is heavily based on the Decameron. Christoph Martin Wieland's set of six novellas, Das Hexameron von Rosenhain, is based on the structure of the Decameron.
Jul 23, 2024 · Set in 1348, the text follows ten Florentines who flee to the countryside to escape the Black Death. There, they entertain themselves by telling stories, sharing a total of 100 anecdotes over...
Jul 26, 2024 · Though the characters are fictional, the setting for the action – the plague that ravaged Florence in 1348 – is real. Boccaccio’s observations on the symptoms and the devastation, and how people struggled to both deter the pestilence and flee from it, are accurate and emotive.
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Unlike the plague of 1340 - which killed an estimated 15,000 Florentines - that of 1348 was, according to Boccaccio, far more contagious, spreading with greater vigour and speed. It was extraordinary, in his view, that the disease did not merely spread from human to human but crossed species too. He saw two pigs dying within moments of biting infec...
At the suggestion of the eldest noblewoman, Pampinea, the brigataleave the terrible pestilence and their devastated, plague-ridden city to take refuge in a rural villa in the nearby hills. They are not abandoning others, she assures the group, as their relatives have either died or fled. The ten pass time by partaking in banquets, playing games, da...
The Decameron was the first prose masterpiece to be written in the Tuscan vernacular, making it more accessible to readers who could not read Latin. It was first distributed in manuscript form in the 1370’s and almost 200 copies were printed over the following two centuries. The work was censured in 1564 by the Council of Trent and a “corrected” ve...
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Full Title: The Decameron, or Prince Galahalt When Written: Between 1349 and 1352 Where Written: Florence When Published: 1352 Literary Period: Medieval Genre: A collection of short stories, including examples of history, romance, pastoral, fabliaux, and other medieval genres. Setting: Florence and the surrounding countryside, 1349
Jul 7, 2020 · This is the structure of Giovanni Boccaccio’s “The Decameron,” a book that has been celebrated now for nearly 700 years. Boccaccio, himself from Florence, most likely began writing “The ...
Jul 25, 2024 · The Decameron is a collection of tales by Giovanni Boccaccio, probably composed between 1349 and 1353. The work is regarded as a masterpiece of classical Italian prose. It comprises a group of stories united by a frame story.
