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The collection of short stories «Decameron» is a world-famous work by Giovanni Boccaccio, an Italian writer of the 14th century. In our country, he is traditionally considered an outstanding writer of the Renaissance, but his work is so closely connected with the Middle Ages and its culture that it is fairer to call it a pre-Renaissance and pre-humanist phenomenon.

In his «Decameron» he created the short story as a literary genre and gave it artistic perfection.

Although Boccaccio took plots from different sources in his Decameron, his novels present a colourful and dynamic picture of Italian life of the 14th century, the way of life and mentality of different social strata, the richness and diversity of human types and characters.