Boccaccio(1313-75) and his“ Decameron” ( a collection of100 stories)卜伽丘与《十日谈》(2-1-5) Italian author he began his great story collection the Decameron, about the time when the black Death reached Florence(1348) With the older Dante and the contemporary Petrarch, he is one of the three great poets of the Italian Giovanni boccaccio fourteenth century.Boccaccio (1313-75) and his “Decameron” ( a collection of 100 stories) 卜伽丘与《十日谈》 （2-1-5） Italian author. He began his great story collection, the Decameron , about the time when the Black Death reached Florence (1348). With the older Dante and the contemporary Petrarch, he is one of the three great poets of the Italian fourteenth century