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"Florence was the home of Giovanni Boccaccio, born in 1313, author of many works, including The Dacameron, a cycle of a hundred stories supposedly told by a group of ten young people over the course of ten days in a luxurious retreat from the horrors of Florence... . Boccaccio called his work a commedia, which in the parlance of the time meant 'any play or narrative poem in which the main characters manage to avert an impending disaster and have a happy ending'"