Giovanni Boccaccio is buried in a small church in the town of Certosa on those hills beyond the towers of San Gimignano that you see above. He is the author of one of the greatest bestsellers of all time: The Decameron. In the midst of the terrible Black Death, the bubonic plague that was raging through all of Europe in 1348, a group of Florentines withdrew to a country home outside the city to try to escape the death and destruction all around them. They entertained themselves and us with one hundred wonderful stories that make up the stories of The Decameron.
