Influence of Boccaccio's Decameron

Timeline

1. 1351–1353Florence · TuscanyBoccaccio completed the Decameron's hundred stories around 1351, set against sheltering in a villa outside Florence, writing in lively Tuscan vernacular about citizen love, wit, and satire; manuscripts were quickly copied among Italian city-states, becoming one of the best-selling secular literary works of the 14th century.
2. 1354–1360Italian Peninsula · ItalyThe Decameron's frame narrative structure and realistic style inspired contemporaries such as Petrarch and Salutati, helping vernacular prose replace Latin as the mainstream of literary expression, and providing narrative models for later writers such as Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Rabelais.