# The Decameron is completed as a hundred vernacular novelle in a 1348 Florence plague frame, c. 1349–1353 Date: 1353 ## The fact 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” (1353-01-01). It is one event. ## 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](/people/giovanni-boccaccio)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death. 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. One book, one Fact: do not split one hundred tales. Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file. ## Evidence and sources Britannica — Decameron and Decameron Web — home independently describe this instrument. Official or archival record: Britannica — Decameron (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Decameron; Encyclopaedia Britannica). ## Significance The Decameron is a knowledge-access path of high confidence on the work, none on unique 1348 death totals supplied here. ## What is established and what is not Established as a sourced public record of this instrument at the date assigned here. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. 1349–1353 on 1353-01-01. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Giovanni Boccaccio. They are not a public rating. Giovanni Boccaccio did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not convert every novella into a Fact. Do not store 1492 print as 1353. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Giovanni Boccaccio. ## People - Giovanni Boccaccio: https://factrail.ai/people/giovanni-boccaccio ## Sources - https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/ - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Decameron ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/boc-decameron-1353