Summary Of Decameron Tales
This article contains summaries and commentaries of the 100 stories contained in Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron.
Each story of the Decameron begins with a short heading explaining the plot of the story. The 1903 J. M. Rigg English translation headings are used in many of these summaries. Commentary on the tale itself follows.
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