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Summary Of: The Decameron

The Decameron played a part in the history of the novel and was finished by Giovanni Boccaccio... The Decameron is a distinctive work... that a number of the stories contained within the Decameron would later appear in Chaucer... almost exclusively Renaissance flair made the stories from the Decameron an irresistible source that many later writers borrowed from... used the Decameron as the basis for... Within the tales of the Decameron the principal characters are usually developed through their dialogue and actions so that by the... Since the Decameron was very popular among contemporaries...

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