FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Seventy
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hundred
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Three hundred and sixty-five
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men; they shelter in a secluded villa just outside Florence in order to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city.
Detailed explanation-2: -Decameron, collection of tales by Giovanni Boccaccio, probably composed between 1349 and 1353. The work is regarded as a masterpiece of classical Italian prose.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ten friends (seven women and three men) get together, hide away from the Black Death that was killing the population of Florence at the time, and start telling stories to each other. They spend ten days together and the stories told total 100 in number.
Detailed explanation-4: -Description. Divided into ten days of ten novellas each, Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron is one of the literary gems of the fourteenth century.
Detailed explanation-5: -This article contains summaries and commentaries of the 100 stories within Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron.