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The Decameron (Volume 2)
Most of the stories in "The Decameron" are true events that happened. Some praise life in this world, some praise love, and some praise the value of freedom. At the same time, there are also stories aimed at exposing the cruelty and tyranny of officials, the hypocrisy of church priests and nuns, etc. Of course, there are also stories about the control of the spiritual world by the power of fate and the control of the spiritual world by the power of human will. Some stories also reveal the deceit
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The Decameron (Volume 1)
The work tells the story of a plague epidemic in Florence, Italy in 1348, and 10 men and women took refuge in a villa in the countryside. They played and entertained all day long, and each told a story every day. They lived for 10 days and told hundreds of stories. These stories criticized the Catholic Church, ridiculed the church for teaching darkness and sin, praised love as the source of talent and noble sentiments, condemned asceticism, ruthlessly exposed and lashed out the depravity and cor
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The Decameron - Volume 1 (English Original Version)
"The Decameron" is a collection of short stories written by Italian Renaissance pioneer Giovanni Boccaccio between 1350 and 1353. It is known as the first realist masterpiece in the history of European literature. The book is based on the Black Death epidemic in Florence in 1348. It tells the story of seven women and three men who fled to a suburban villa to avoid the epidemic. Each of them told a story every day for ten days, forming a collection of one hundred stories in total. The themes of t
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