decameron
Speech parts
1. decameron - Noun
2. Decameron - Proper noun
Meaning
A celebrated collection of tales, supposed to be related in ten days; -- written in the 14th century, by Boccaccio, an Italian.
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A quarter of the tales in The Canterbury Tales parallel a tale in the Decameron, although most of them have closer parallels in other stories.
Christine also cited from Boccaccio's Decameron in the latter stages of The City of Ladies.
Certain sources also see a conversion of Boccaccio by Petrarch from the open humanist of the Decameron to a more ascetic style, closer to the dominant fourteenth century ethos.
Boccaccio began work on The Decameron citation citation around 1349.
Dioneo narrates what is by far the most obscene and bawdy tale in the Decameron.
Dioneo tells the final (and possibly most retold) story of the Decameron.