In the morning and in the evening, they will take walks, sing songs, and eat exquisite meals, with fine wines, golden and red. Soon, they assemble three gentlemen linked to them by kinship or by affection-Filostrato, Dioneo, and Panfilo-and the ten young people decamp at dawn for the countryside. The other women say that they’d love to, but they think they should bring some men along. Let’s get out of here, Pampinea, the eldest, says. They range in age from eighteen to twenty-eight, and they are all of genteel birth. Seven young ladies, friends-Pampinea, Filomena, Neifile, Fiammetta, Elissa, Lauretta, and Emilia-meet after Mass. An estimated sixty per cent of the population of Florence and the surrounding countryside died.Īnd so begins the Decameron.
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