The Decameron
The Decameron by Boccaccio is a text read by all Columbia College first years during their second semester of Lit Hum. With little reputation to proceed it, the book appears to be a fearfully weighty late medieval tome. In fact, it turns out to be a collection of picaresque stories filled with wild clergy sex and scatalogical humor. All of these are told in the context of a "frame narrative" in which several friends escape plague-addled Florence for the countryside, where they wile away their days almost certainly tripping on something.
