While Dante Alighieri is a moralist, Boccaccio has little time for chastity: pokes fun at crafty and clerics, celebrating the power of passion. Boccaccio’s skill as a dramatist is displayed in portraits of people with plots merged in a bewildering variety of human reactions. The Decameron, https://www.amazon.com/Decameron-Penguin-Classics-Giovanni-Boccaccio/dp/0140449302 offer one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death (the stories are told in a country villa, outside the city of Florence), by ten young noble men and women, who are seeking to escape the ravages of the plague. Every member of the party tells a story each night, resulting in ten nights of storytelling over the course of two weeks. The various tales of love in The Decameron range from the erotic to the tragic. The novel is monument of pre-Renaissance literature with certain elements, which are not apparent immediatelly to today’s readers. Reading, you will discover that beyond the narrative frame, Decameron provides a unity in philosophical outlook.
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