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Giovanni Boccaccio, Dante, and Petrarch were the leading lights in a century that is considered the beginning of the Italian Renaissance. The Decameron, or Ten Days' Entertainment, is his most famous work, a collection of stories considered representative of the Middle Ages, as well as a product of the Renaissance.

A group of Florentine youths escape to the mountain countryside during the time of the plague, only to regale each other with vignettes of sex, vice, temptation, and come-uppance. This is a strictly adult listen, which will bring a little colour to your cheeks and have you laughing out loud.

Un grupo de nobles italianos tienen que refugiarse la peste negra en una casa para pasar el rato, se cuentan el uno al otro historias. La serie de cien cuentos que se narran son divertidos por que se mofan de todas las que se supone sean buenas costumbres.