books.google.si - Set against the background of the Black Death of 1348, the hundred linked tales in Giovanni Boccaccioís undisputed masterpiece are peopled by nobles, knights, abbots, nuns, doctors, lawyers, philosophers, students, artists, tradesmen, troubadours, peasants, pilgrims, servants, spendthrifts, thieves,...http://books.google.si/books/about/The_Decameron.html?id=CQGPCzt1JbIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Decameron