In this ideal places, represented with all the features of the locus amoenus, they eventually commit themselves to storytelling in order to occupy their time. The new-formed posse or brigata leave the city and its horrors and reach a countryside palace where they decide to stay. The oldest of the group, Pampinea, suggest to leave the city and thus avoid the sad vision of deaths, the risk of contagion and the lack of authority which eventually had weakened all social and moral controls.īeing afraid of traveling alone, the women took with them three young men of their acquaintance just arrived into the church. While chaos reigns in the streets and every friendship or kinship is broken by the plague's fear, seven young gentlewomen gather in the church of Santa Maria Novella to pray and try to find out some way to face the situation. The Decameron is set in 1348, when the Black Death was ravaging the city of Florence, as portrayed by Boccaccio in his famous description of plague's effect on people and places. Written by jovelyn agcang, Rina Elizavetenkova, Christian Fajardo and other people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. Some scholars define him as the greatest European prose writer of his time, a versatile writer who amalgamated different literary trends and genres, making them converge in original works, thanks to a creative activity exercised under the banner of experimentalism.These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. He was one of the most important figures in the European literary panorama of the fourteenth century. Giovanni Boccaccio was a writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Written in the vernacular of the Florentine language, it is considered a masterpiece of classical early Italian prose. Tales of wit, practical jokes, and life lessons contribute to the mosaic. The various tales of love in The Decameron range from the erotic to the tragic. Boccaccio probably conceived of The Decameronafter the epidemic of 1348, and completed it by 1353. The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men they shelter in a secluded villa just outside Florence in order to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city.
The Decameron, sometimes nicknamed l'Umana commedia ("the Human comedy", as it was Boccaccio that dubbed Dante Alighieri's Comedy " Divine"), is a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio.
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