As the plague swept through Florence, Giovanni Boccaccio imagined ten young people leaving the city for a villa in the hills. Their rule was no bad news from outside.
For ten days they told each other stories that were funny, romantic and wise, a hundred in all. The book they live in, The Decameron, has outlasted the plague by nearly 700 years.
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