The decameron : containing an hundred pleasant nouels : wittily discoursed, betweene seauen honourable ladies and three noble gentlemen
The Decameron is a 1620 London collection of one hundred tales by Giovanni Boccaccio, translated by John Florio and printed by Isaac Jaggard for a general English readership. Its pictures are small oval woodcut vignettes set in ornate scrolled frames, showing groups of courtly figures dancing, feasting and conversing in outdoor settings, with a designer able to borrow their framing and crowd arrangements for period-style decoration.
