The-Decameron.docx

The Decameron
In 1348, a terrible plague occurred in Florence, Italy (the plague referred to in this book was a plague in Europe in the 1440s and 50s. The term black death was derived from this). Every day, even every hour, there are large numbers of bodies that are shipped outside the city. From March to July, more than 100,000 people died from illness. The beautiful and prosperous city of Florence, once in the past, became a cemetery full of bones and was full of horrors. This incident had a profound influence on Boccaccio, a great Italian writer at the time. In order to record the human disaster, he took the plague as the background and wrote "The Decameron" for five years.
According to Boccaccio, the stories in The Decameron are well-founded. The work extols the life of the present, praises love as the noble source of wisdom, eulogizes the value of free love, affirms people’s intelligence and so on. The works also revealed the brutality of the feudal monarchs, the sins of the Christian Church, the hypocrisy of the priests and so on. Boccaccio grew up in Florence. He grew up yearning for democracy and freedom and expressed his dissatisfaction with the dark rule of the church. After growing up, he participated in many political activities and opposed feudal autocracy. "The Decameron" is his powerful weapon against feudalism and anti-church.
The stories in The Decameron are widely sourced, and Boccaccio is broad and collectable, drawing material from historical events, medieval legends, and oriental folk tales (such as "The Seven Philosophers" and "Arabian Nights"). But Boccaccio transplanted the plots of these stories to Italy, reforming and recreating it with humanistic ideas.