Decameron

Decameron. The greatest prose work of the early Renaissance, 100 novels, conditionally united by a framing plot about young Italian cavaliers and their ladies who fled to the rural estate from the plague epidemic and short -lived leisure with entertaining stories. And what stories - it seems that it is in full swing in them, laughs and cries the XIV -century Italy itself with its mischievous humor, a mixture of sincere faith and chisly freemen, enterprise and crafty, violent temperament and indomitable thirst for life and love, happiness and the most diverse pleasures.