The Decameron

The Decameron, is a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375). Faithfully Translated from the Italian by J. M. Rigg (James Macmullen Rigg, 1855-1926).

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 ...