A collection of one hundred short stories by Giovanni Boccaccio, composed between about 1348 and 1353, subtitled Prince Galehaut. Ten young Florentines sheltering in the countryside from the Black Death each tell one story a night for ten nights, and the resulting frame narrative, ranging from bawdy comedy to tragedy, is regarded as a masterpiece of early Italian prose and a major influence on later European storytelling, including Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
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Why do the storytellers in The Decameron leave Florence?
To escape the Black Death.
They leave Florence to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city. The party shelters in a secluded villa just outside Florence, and the stories are told there to pass the time.
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The Decameron, subtitled Prince Galehaut, is a collection of short stories by Giovanni Boccaccio.
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The Decameron ( dih-KAM-ər-ən; Italian: Decameron [deˈkaːmeron, dekameˈrɔn, -ˈron] or Decamerone [dekameˈroːne]), subtitled Prince Galehaut (Old Italian: Prencipe Galeotto [ˈprentʃipe ɡaleˈɔtto, ˈprɛn-]), is a collection of short stories by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio
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The Decameron, subtitled Prince Galehaut, is a collection of short stories by Giovanni Boccaccio.
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the resulting frame narrative, ranging from bawdy comedy to tragedy, is regarded as a masterpiece of early Italian prose
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is a collection of short stories by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375).
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