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What does Decameron mean?

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Proper noun
  1. A collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353.
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The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio contains more parallels to The Canterbury Tales than any other work.
The principal source of the plot was a tale in Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron.
The dominant notes of the Decameron are this realism and cheer and disorderliness, but, whatever you say about the book, something else arises to contradict you.
Bibliographical Decameron, various quotations from, 93, 294 et seq.
Other books were bowdlerized, including Boccaccio's Decameron and Castiglione's The Courtier.
The fact that a borderline problem as to judgement exists is illustrated efficiently by the cases of Chaucer and Boccaccio's Decameron.

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