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In the story, ten young Florentines (seven women, three men) leave the plague-ridden city, settle in a country villa and for ten days tell interesting and instructive stories (one hundred in total) that broadly recreate the everyday life of medieval Italy.

The Decameron gave Boccaccio European fame. In The Decameron, the genre of the urban novel was brought to perfection, paving the way for all Renaissance novelism. Not only the interest of the stories, the vivid images of the characters, their juicy language, but also the artistic excellence of Boccaccio's novels attracted people. It is worth noting that some of the stories in The Decameron are skilfully borrowed from stories found in ancient literature, for example, in Apuleius' Metamorphoses. The plots of the Decameron were often borrowed by writers from other European countries, often reworking them in the spirit of national traditions.