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A review by raptorred
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
5.0
A bunch of rich folks escape the city to avoid the plague that's killing everyone by the thousands. In the meantime, they decide to have a picnic at their fancy estate and share stories that they have heard, funny, sad, gross, scandalous, and even peaceful.
I took a college class where the entire semester we reviewed solely this book. It took a whole new perspective and absolute appreciation for what the author was doing while writing these collection of stories that can show a lot of the time era, Dante's Inferno influences, and the literary prose of each narrator sharing their own stories and getting to learn about them.
Bonus, the movie The Little Hours with Aubrey Plaza is based on one of the stories in the book!
I took a college class where the entire semester we reviewed solely this book. It took a whole new perspective and absolute appreciation for what the author was doing while writing these collection of stories that can show a lot of the time era, Dante's Inferno influences, and the literary prose of each narrator sharing their own stories and getting to learn about them.
Bonus, the movie The Little Hours with Aubrey Plaza is based on one of the stories in the book!