Decameron
| By: | Giovanni Boccaccio |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Print ISBN: | 9780140449303.0 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781625583918 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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The Decameron, also called Prince Galehaut, is a 14th-century medieval allegory by Giovanni Boccaccio, told as a frame story encompassing 100 tales by ten young people. The book's primary title exemplifies Boccaccio's fondness for Greek philology: Decameron combines two Greek words, Greek: dÈka ("ten") and (Greek: hemÈra ("day"), to form a term that means "ten-day event". Ten days is the time period in which the characters of the frame story tell their tales.