the action of The Décaméron takes place when the city florence is, in its turn, a victim of the black plague. Which, need I remind you, cut down between 30% and 50% of the european population. More than 25 million lives. Nothing that Florence had 100,000 dead. Boccaccio survived the epidemic. It gave him the idea to devote a book to amuse his contemporaries of death. It is as well that there imagine ten young people (seven girls and three boys) who had found shelter outside the city. To forget the horrors of views, each of them tell, each day, a new history…
