Project Gutenberg 2015-01-06 Public domain in the USA. 148 Boccaccio, Giovanni 1313 1375 Soderhjelm, Werner 1859 1931 Söderhjelm, Werner Lehtonen, Joel 1881 1934 Novelleja Decameronesta Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decameron Wikipedia page about this book: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decameron E-text prepared by Tapio Riikonen "Novelleja Decameronesta" by Giovanni Boccaccio is a collection of novellas likely written in the 14th century. This work is a notable forerunner to modern narrative fiction, presenting various stories that explore themes of love, morality, and human behavior, often intertwined with wit and satire. The initial framing narrative introduces a group of young men and women who flee the Black Death ravaging Florence, seeking refuge in a secluded villa where they engage in storytelling to pass the time and distract themselves from their grim surroundings. At the start of the collection, the character Ser Ciappelletto is introduced, a thoroughly wicked man who, despite his misdeeds, manages to fool a monk into believing he is holy, thus securing a place in the church after his death. Through cunning and deceit, Ciappelletto manages to portray himself as a saint, leading to a posthumous veneration that reflects the hypocrisy and gullibility within religious institutions. This tale not only sets the tone for the themes of irony and morality that are prevalent in Boccaccio's work but also reveals the author's critical perspective on societal norms and the contradictions of human nature. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 40.0 (College-level). Difficult to read. fi Plague -- Europe -- History -- Fiction Storytelling -- Fiction Allegories Frame-stories PQ Text Category: Short Stories Category: Classics of Literature 614209 2025-07-19T09:09:02.052804 text/html 614026 613959 2024-10-20T05:55:12.890435 2023-09-20T15:49:43.458523 text/html text/html 292114 2025-07-19T09:09:09.929792 application/epub+zip 301412 2025-07-19T09:09:04.966795 application/epub+zip 289115 2025-07-19T09:09:03.820814 application/epub+zip 548342 2025-07-19T09:09:14.042749 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 513575 2025-07-19T09:09:09.214808 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 462799 2022-09-21T17:46:57.574734 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 579510 2025-07-19T09:09:01.577861 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 559678 2024-10-24T13:45:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 20176 2025-07-19T09:09:14.180739 application/rdf+xml 15068 2025-07-19T09:09:04.302795 image/jpeg 4059 2025-07-19T09:09:04.059795 image/jpeg 289900 2025-07-19T09:09:02.102815 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog it.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia fi.wikipedia