# The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio has 308,778 words.

## At a glance

14th-century collection of stories by Giovanni Boccaccio.

- **Author:** [Giovanni Boccaccio](https://musael.com/books/authors/giovanni-boccaccio.md) (1313–1375)
- **First published:** 1353
- **Original language:** medieval Italian
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 308,778
- **Reading time:** 20 h 35 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 33 h 12 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 25 h 44 min | 52 days |
| 250 wpm | 20 h 35 min | 42 days |
| 300 wpm | 17 h 9 min | 35 days |

## Read or listen

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23700

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 308,778
- Dialogue: 7% of the words are inside quotation marks

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23700 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16438
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decameron
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL43171981W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23700

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-decameron-of-giovanni-boccaccio