• Title: The Decameron
• Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
• Genre/Subject: Italian literature
• Publisher: —
• Publication Date: 1353
• Start date: 1/1/2021
• Finish date: 1/11/2021

Review:

Called a masterpiece, and deservedly so.

10 young people, 7 women and 3 men, set out for their country villas to escape the plague in Florence.

They elect one of their number as King for the day and he or she sets the rules of the day and the subject of the tales they tell in the evenings.

Ten people, ten tales, ten days. Hence: Decameron.

Lots of tales of feasting.

Lots more tales of fucking.

Morality tales but disguised well, not like a 1980s after school special.

Bawdy, funny, heartwarming and charming.