
喬萬尼·薄伽丘
該作講述1348年,意大利佛羅倫薩瘟疫流行,10名男女在鄉村一所別墅裏避難。他們終日遊玩歡宴,每人每天講一個故事,共住了10天講了百個故事,這些故事批判天主教會,嘲笑教會傳授黑暗和罪惡,讚美愛情是才華和高尚情操的源泉,譴責禁慾主義,無情暴露和鞭撻封建貴族的墮落和腐敗,體現了人文主義思想。《十日談》是歐洲文學史上第一部現實主義鉅著;意大利近代評論家桑克提斯曾把《十日談》與但丁的《神曲》並列,稱之爲“人曲”。
and Giannole and Minghino, gave Agnesa—such was the damsel's name—to Minghino to wife, to the great delight of all Minghino's kinsfolk, and set at liberty not only Giannole and Minghino but Crivello, and the others their confederates in the affair. Whereupon Minghino with the blithest of hearts wedded Agnesa with all due pomp and circumstance, and brought her home, where for many a year thereafter he lived with her in peace and prosperity.