Decameron. Giovanni Boccaccio. 2010.

Set gainer the background of the Black Death of 1348, the hundred linked tales in Giovanni Boccaccio’s undisputed masterpiece are peopled by nobles, knights, abbots, nuns, doctors, lawyers, philosophers, students, artists, tradesmen, troubadours, peasants, pilgrims, servants, spendthrifts, thieves, parasites, gluttons, gamblers, police-and lovers, both faithful and faithless. 

Unabashedly earthy in its sensuality, The Decameron recaptures both tragedies and comedies of life, and it is surely one of the greatest achievements in the history of literature.