Decameron

The 'Decameron', also called 'Prince Galehaut', is a 14th-century medieval allegory by Giovanni Boccaccio, told as a frame story encompassing 100 tales by ten young people. The book's primary title exemplifies Boccaccio's fondness for Greek philology: Decameron combines two Greek words, Greek: deka ("e;ten"e;) and (Greek: hemera ("e;day"e;), to form a term that means "e;ten-day event"e;. Ten days is the time period in which the characters of the frame story tell their tales.