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This book, written in
two volumes is a col-
lection of seemingly

realistic stories, in-

spired by Covid 19,
such as Boccaccio's

Decameron that was
written at the time of

the plague in Italy in
the 1300s. This simi-

larity has inspired
the title of the book,

‘The Modern De-
cameron’.

What exactly the De-

cameron is and who Boccaccio was is explained below.

The Decameron is a book of 100 short stories written by

Giovanni Boccaccio after the Black Plague in Europe
which occurred around 1349-1351.

Boccaccio imagines that seven flourishing young women

and three young men, take refuge in a villa in Fiesole,
Tuscany, and remain in quarantine to escape the plague.

To pass the time they decide that each night everyone

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