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  1. A collection of tales by the Italian writer
  2. Boccaccio, brought together 1348-53. Ten
  3. young people, fleeing plague-stricken
  4. Florence, amuse their fellow travellers by
  5. each telling a story on the ten days they
  6. spend together. The work had a great
  7. influence on English literature, particularly
  8. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
  9.