Decameron

Author: Bo Jiaqi
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Publishing Date: 1993-07-01
Features: In 1348, a plague broke out in a city in Italy. Ten men and women sought refuge in a villa in the countryside. They spent their days indulging in entertainment and feasts, with each person telling a story every day. Over ten days, they told a hundred stories, which criticized the Catholic Church, mocked its teachings of darkness and evil, praised love as the source of talent and noble sentiments, condemned asceticism, mercilessly exposed and scourged the decadence and corruption of the feudal aristocracy, and embodied humanist thought.