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Boccaccio: The Decameron Preface to the Ladies The setting in the Preface to the Ladies is in the year 1348. . The structure of the work is distinctly medieval considering its idealization of women and the mocking and entertaining depictions of a corrupt clergy in the first story of the first day. The story begins with a dark and eerie feeling in which Boccaccio describes as a “heavy and irksome beginning this present work …” (Boccaccio xxiii). The reason for such alarm is that the book is about to describe the plague which swept through the beautiful city of Florence turning it to a dark and deserted place. The city was overrun with farm animals that got lose because their caretaker had fallen ill to the deadly disease. The fields became filled with drifting wheat crops that drooped and was uncut or gathered. Boccaccio tells of the death of countless humans beings and how they buried the numerous bodies in trenches because the sanctified ground of the church could not give each one their own individual place like their customs suggested.
Approximate Word count = 618
Approximate Pages = 2.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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