Ten young Florentines flee the plague to a country villa, passing ten days telling a hundred tales of love and wit.
Books that mention The Decameron (9)
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster: “Some critics believe that her garden was the scene of The Decameron, which lends it an additional interest, does it not?"”
Billy Budd by Herman Melville: “some going to their neighbouring chambers to turn over the _Decameron_ ere retiring for the night”
Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins: “Sir Patrick, deep in an old Venetian edition of The Decameron, found himself suddenly recalled from medieval Italy to modern England, by no less a person than Geoffrey Delamayn.”
The Amethyst Ring by Anatole France: “the Boccaccio illustrated by Marillier”
The Well of Saint Clare by Anatole France: “The Decameron of Messer Giovanni Boccaccio, Sixth Day, Novella IX.”
Lent by Jo Walton: “He hesitates over Boccaccio's Decameron, and a volume of Angelo's sonnets”
The Essays by Michel de Montaigne: “Amongst books that are simply pleasant, of the moderns, Boccaccio's Decameron, Rabelais, and the Basia of Johannes Secundus (if those may be ranged under the title) are worth reading for amusement.”
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon: “That popular writer, who derives his reputation from the Decameron, a hundred novels of pleasantry and love, may aspire to the more serious praise of restoring in Italy the study of the Greek language.”
Waverley by Walter Scott: “sought gratification in the numerous collections of novelle, which were brought forth by the genius of that elegant though luxurious nation, in emulation of the 'Decameron.'”