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Boccaccio work, with "The"
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decameron
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c.1600, from Italian Decamerone , name of Boccaccio's 14c. collection of 100 tales supposedly told over 10 days, from Greek deka "ten" (see ten ) + hemera "day" (see ephemera ).
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Decameron were a British Folk / Progressive rock band, existing from 1968 to 1976.
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n. A collection of 100 novellas by Italian author http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353.
Usage examples of decameron.
King Robert was then dead, but Boccaccio enjoyed the favour of Queen Joan, of somewhat doubtful memory, at whose instance he hints in one of his later letters that he wrote the Decameron.
Without impugning Boccaccio's veracity we can hardly but think that the Decameron would have seen the light, though Queen Joan had withheld her encouragement.