A collection of one hundred short stories by the Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio. According to the plot, ten young Florentines (seven women, three men) leave the plague-stricken city, settle in a country villa and for ten days tell interesting and instructive stories (one hundred in all), which widely reproduce various aspects of everyday life in medieval Italy. Decameron brought Boccaccio European fame. In "Decameron" the genre of the urban short story was perfectly revealed, which opened the way to all Renaissance short stories. Attracted not only the curiosity of the stories, vivid images of the heroes, their juicy language, but also the artistic elegance of Boccaccio's short stories, unconventional interpretation of a number of plots common in previous medieval literature.

(. Giovanni Boccaccio; 16 1313, 21 1375) , .