![]() Most are set in the present (i.e., Boccaccio’s present) or recent past, or are timeless fairy tale-type stories where precise place and time are not really relevant, with a small number being set back in the classical era of ancient Greece and Rome.īoccaccio routinely mixes in real names, real events, real places, etc., and makes some pretense that these are true stories, but typically what he writes bears no more than a minimal resemblance to anything that really happened, and there are anachronisms galore, not to mention occasional supernatural occurrences. Many of the stories are set in the Florence area, but there are many set in other parts of Italy, and a few set elsewhere. ![]() (The work itself is about 800 pages, so this is a hefty book of over a thousand pages total.)īoccaccio was born in or near Florence, and lived most of his life in Florence and Naples. McWilliam of well over a hundred pages, with about seventy more pages of explanatory endnotes. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was not previously familiar with the work nor the author, so it was a significant help to my understanding that the Penguin Classics edition of the book I read includes a preface and introduction by the translator G.H. The Decameron, written in the mid-14th century, is a collection of stories by the Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio. ![]()
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