The Canterbury Tales (1386-1400). The Decameron was a compilation of one hundred novelle told by ten people -- seven women and three men -- fleeing the Black Death by escaping from Florence to the Fiesole hills, in 1348.

Renaissance period: 1500-1700

The modern distinction between history and fiction did not exist in the early sixteenth century and the grossest improbabilities pervade many historical

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