# Boccaccio: Decameron [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, Italian]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Manuscript \(Ms. Holkham misc. 49\) ## Commentary Boccaccio: Decameron 1450-70 Manuscript \(Ms. Holkham misc. 49\) Bodleian Library, Oxford The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio \(1313-1375\) recounts the tales told to each other by a group of young men and women sheltering together from the plague in the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence. On folio 5r in this manuscript, made for Teofilo Calcagni in the Este court of Ferrara in the third quarter of the fifteenth century, the young people are shown gathering for the story-telling. ## Related artworks - [Alessandro Cortesi: Poem]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics]() - [Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics]() - [Armiranda]() - [Aulus Gellius: Noctes Atticae]() - [Averulino: On the Architecture]() - [Baldo Martorelli: Grammar]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()