The Decameron (Oxford World's Classics)

The Decameron (Oxford World's Classics) by Boccaccio, Giovanni. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780192836915.

The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of 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. Boccaccios skill as a dramatist is masterfully displayed in these vivid portraits of people from all stations in life, with plots that revel in a bewildering variety of human reactions.