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The Decameron Essay Preview: The Decameron Report this essay The Decameron Joel King GE4455 Literature October 26, 2005 Joshua Wilkes Completed about 1353 by Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron takes place in Florence in 1348. About the same time that Boccaccio was writing The Decameron, the plague or Black Death was making its way through Western.