The Decameron is completed as a hundred vernacular novelle in a 1348 Florence plague frame, c. 1349–1353
The 1348 plague is historical context and a literary frame, not a disease he caused.
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1349–1353” (1353-01-01).
Context
The 1348 plague is historical context and a literary frame, not a disease he caused. Mixed later uses (including misogynist and anti-clerical readings) belong on other headings if sourced as distinct instruments; Corbaccio is a later different book.
Giovanni Boccaccio’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.
Britannica places composition about 1348–53 and Boccaccio in Florence during the 1348 ravages. Decameron Web’s life page starts work around 1349. Later autograph Hamilton 90 and printed editions are evidence, not 1353 type.
Who was responsible
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Giovanni Boccaccio
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.4 · verified
What changed
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No public driver impacts are listed for this fact.
Evidence
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- 1.Decameron Web — homeBrown University / Italian Studies · High credibility · verified
- 2.Britannica — DecameronEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Britannica’s Decameron article records a masterpiece of classical Italian prose, a hundred stories in a plague-frame. Decameron Web independently hosts the work as a public teaching file.
1349–1353 on 1353-01-01.
Giovanni Boccaccio did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act.
Causal path
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No causal path is recorded: this fact is not linked to a driver.
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Factrail. (2026). The Decameron is completed as a hundred vernacular novelle in a 1348 Florence plague frame, c. 1349–1353. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/boc-decameron-1353
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