In 1348, the city of Florence in Italy is devastated by the Black Death. A group of young people from high society decide to flee and, thanks to their means, find themselves in an isolated house outside of the city. The seven women and three men adopt a set of rules: each person will tell a story on a given theme, every single day.
First day: where each talks of what is most enjoyable to them.
Second day: where each speaks of those who, tormented by fate, end up beyond all hope making it through.\
Third day: where each talks of those who achieve what they wanted or find what they had lost.
Fourth day: where each talks of tragic loves.
Fifth day: where each talks of the happy ends that follow tragic loves.
Sixth day: where each talks of those that avoid harm, danger or shame through wit.
Seventh day: where each speaks of the tricks played by women, out of love for their husbands, be they conscious or not.
Eighth day: where each talks of the tricks women play on men and vice versa, or the tricks men play between themselves.
Ninth day: where each talks of what is most enjoyable to them.
Tenth day: where each talks of those who acted in love or in other circumstances with liberality and magnificence.
Ten days later, the group had one hundred short stories that were assembled by Giovanni Boccaccio in a book we can now read as The Decameron, a word from the ancient greek meaning: the book of 10 days.
Considering that these stories were written in their own time, but in circumstances of confinement, it is a timely work for the events of the day. Can be read in its entirety, or piece by piece through audio book.