The Italian Renaissance author Giovanni Boccaccio wrote the Decameron in the wake of the plague outbreak in Florence in 1348.

Where does The Decameron take place?

Florence, Italy, 1348. The story begins in Florence, Italy, circa 1348, around the time of an outbreak of the Plague and at the dawn of the Italian Renaissance.

When was The Decameron written?

Boccaccio's book, written between 1348 and 1353, has been acclaimed as an exemplar of vernacular literary prose, and a commentary on the “peste” that swept through Europe that year.