A collection of ten stories, tales, or narratives; specifically refers to Boccaccio's famous work of the same name.
From deca- (ten) + -meron (from Greek 'hēmera' meaning day). The term literally means 'ten days.' Boccaccio's 14th-century 'Decameron' features ten narrators telling stories over ten days.
Boccaccio's Decameron was medieval literature's greatest frame narrative—ten plague refugees telling stories to escape the Black Death became one of the most influential books in Western literature!
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