Voyage of the Decameron: Prelude

An Introduction from the Author: Robert L. Slater

Inspired by the introduction to The Decameron also known as Prince Galeotto by literal and literary Renaissance Man, Giovanni Boccaccio. The Decameron is at time referred to as lUmana commedia, The Human Comedy. The word decameron means ten days. During the Bubonic Plague, Boccaccio began writing vignettes told by ten young folks, ten stories a night for ten nights to help them deal with their social separation from other humans. This one goes...