The modell of vvit, mirth, eloquence, and conversation. Framed in ten dayes, of an hundred curious peeces, by seven houourable [sic] ladies, and three noble gentlemen. Preserved to posterity by that renowned Iohn Boccacio, the first refiner of Italian prose: and now translated into English.

Blurb

Here are 16 tales from one of the great works of the Middle Ages. Ten young people have fled for a while the terrible effects of the Black Death in Florence and, in an idyllic setting, tell a series of brilliant stories, by turns humorous, bawdy, tragic and provocative. This celebration of physical and sexual vitality is Boccaccio's answer to the sublime other-worldliness of Dante's "Divine Comdey"...