![]() This, to my judgment, we have well and honourably done for that, an I have known to see aright, albeit merry stories and belike incentive to concupiscence have been told here and we have continually eaten and drunken well and danced and sung and made music, all things apt to incite weak minds to things less seemly, I have noted no act, no word, in fine nothing blameworthy, either on your part or on that of us men nay, meseemeth I have seen and felt here a continual decency, an unbroken concord and a constant fraternal familiarity the which, at once for your honour and service and for mine own, is, certes, most pleasing to me. The Decameron is structured with a frame story containing a hundred tales told by a group of ten young men and women sheltering in a villa just outside Florence to escape the Black Death, which had struck the city. To-morrow, as you know, it will be fifteen days since we departed Florence, to take some diversion for the preservation of our health and of our lives, eschewing the woes and dolours and miseries which, since this pestilential season began, are continually to be seen about our city. The Decameron is a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, completed in 1353. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Charming ladies, as I doubt not you know, the understanding of mortals consisteth not only in having in memory things past and taking cognizance of things present but in knowing, by means of the one and the other of these, to forecast things future is reputed by men of mark to consist the greatest wisdom. The Decameron subtitled Prince Galehaut and sometimes nicknamed lUmana commedia (the Human comedy, as it was Boccaccio that dubbed Dante Alighieris. ![]()
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