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The Decameron
Joel King
GE4455 Literature
October 26, 2005
Joshua Wilkes

Completed about 1353 by Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron takes place in Florence in 1348. About the same time that Boccaccio was writing The Decameron, the plague or Black Death was making its way through Western Europe. About a fourth of the population of Europe died from the plague. Boccaccio himself had someone personal die from the plague. His lover, Maria d'Aquino, died in 1348. He represents her in many of his stories as Fiammetta. Having gone through the plague, Boccaccio knows what he's talking about.
Like I said before, this story takes place in 1348 in Florence, Italy during the time of the plague. The narrator explains to us that Florence is filled with sick and dieing people. There are dead bodies outside of household doors from neighbors bringing the dead decaying bodies out to be collected by the becchini. Often times they had too many bodies that they didn't know what to do with them.......

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Approximate Word Count: 877
Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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