How many novelle (stories) are told in Boccaccio's Decameron?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. One hundred, told over ten days by a group of ten young people
- Step 1: The Decameron is a frame story: young people leave plague-stricken Florence for the countryside in 1348. Step 2. Each of the ten tells one story on each of ten days, giving one hundred novelle. Answer: one hundred. Why not the others: the other figures change the number of days, the number of storytellers or the total of stories.
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