The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

by Giovanni Boccaccio · language: en

Vocabulary level: Intermediate · Flesch–Kincaid grade 18 · 5,849 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: Allegories · Frame stories · Plague — Europe — History — Fiction · Storytelling — Fiction

Words worth knowing: pestle · ofttimes · agone · clout · dalliance · servitor · longingly · ewe

[Transcriber's Note: The original text does not observe the normal convention of placing quotation marks at the beginnings of paragraphs within a multiple-paragraph quotation.

This idiosyncrasy has been preserved in this e-text.

Archaic spellings have been preserved, but obvious printer errors have been corrected.

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