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 | [The Decameron] (By: Giovanni Boccaccio) [published: July, 2008] (1st Edition) by Professor Giovanni Boccaccio, Jonathan Usher (Editor), Guido Waldman (Translator), Senior Editor Paperback, 752 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-10: 0-19-954041-1 / 0199540411 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-954041-9 / 9780199540419 The Decameron (c.1351) was written in the wake of the Black Death, a shattering epidemic which had shaken Florence's confident entrepreneurial society to its core. In a country villa outside the city, ten young noble men and women who have escaped the plague decide to tell each other stories. Boccac | |