The Decameron, a collection of one hundred short stories by the Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio, is one of the most striking books of the Renaissance. During a plague epidemic in 1348, a company of young men and beautiful ladies takes refuge in a country villa, and in order to drive away the fear of death, for ten days they tell each other entertaining stories - funny and frivolous, tragic and touching. In 2015, “The Decameron "was colorfully filmed. The collection includes 9 of the most famous short stories. Sir Ciappelletto deceives a pious monk with a false confession and dies; a scoundrel during his life, after death he was recognized as a saint and named San Ciappelletto Andreuccio from Perugia, having arrived in Naples to buy horses, in one night he is exposed to three dangers and, having avoided all, returns home as the owner of the ruby. everyone competes to get along with him. Tancred, Prince of Salerno, kills his daughter’s lover and sends his heart to her in a golden goblet; having poured poisoned water on him, she drinks it and dies. Cimone, having fallen in love, becomes wise and kidnaps Ephigenia, her sweetheart, at sea; he is imprisoned in Rhodes; Lysimachus frees him, and both of them drag Iphigenia and Cassandra away from their wedding celebration; with them they flee to Crete, marry them, and are all called home together. Federigo degli Alberighi loves, but is not loved, squanders all his fortune on courtship, and he has only one falcon left, which, for lack of anything else, he serves for dinner to his lady who came to visit him; Having learned about this, she changes her feelings for him, marries him and makes him a rich man. Messer Forese da Rabatta and Messer Giotto, the painter, returning from Mugello, mutually mock their pitiful appearance. Peronella hides her lover, when her husband returns home, in the wine room. barrel; the husband sold it, and the wife says that she has already sold it to the man who climbed into it to inspect whether it was strong; he gets out of her and, ordering his husband to scrape her out, takes her home. The Marquis of Saluzza, forced by the requests of his people to marry, takes for himself, in order to choose a wife at his own request, the daughter of a peasant and, having raised two children with her, assures her that he killed their. Then, pretending that he is tired of her and is marrying someone else, he orders his own daughter to return, as if she were his wife, and send her away in just her shirt. Seeing that she endures everything patiently, he returns her to his home, beloved more than ever, introduces her to her now grown children and honors her and orders her to be honored as a marquise