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What does the title of Boccaccio’s The Decameron (1350-52) mean?

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The title of Boccaccio’s The Decameron means “ten days” and refers to the number of days the narrators spend telling stories.

One hundred stories are told by seven women and three men during the Black Death of 1348.

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