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On 4/24/2022 10:04 AM, between "Mike Powell - AUGUST ABOLINS":
>> In 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio wrote The Decameron: one hundred nested tales
told
>> y a group of young men and women passing the time at a villa outside
Florence
>> ile waiting out the gruesome Black Death, a plague that killed more than 25
mi
>> ion people. Some of the stories are silly, some are bawdy, some are like
fable
>
> Take out the Black Death part, and it sounds similar to the Caterbury Tales.
>
> Mike

I never actually read the Canterbury Tales.  But a quick review of the plot
DOES indeed sound like something similar.  I might have to give the CT a try
some day.

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