Fiametta

Many of Boccaccio's works, including his most famous, the Decameron, features a character named Fiammetta. She serves as Boccaccio's muse; her possible existence and connection to the real Maria d'Aquino is hotly debated. The Decameron, one of the finest works of Italian prose, is a collection of tales told by 10 young people escaping the Black Death, is a bawdy and religious work, both tragic and comic, reflecting the contradictions and intensity of life during the early Renaissance. The passion of Boccaccio's poetry and prose lingers on today, as evidenced Pier Paolo Pasolini's popular film of the Decameron of 1971.