Exactly how steamy is this story?
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Domestic abuse? Sexual slavery? Sexual slavery perpetrated by a convent full of nuns? Murder? Adultery? Vulgar punch lines? Sacrilege? Total shagfest? The Real Housewives of Medieval Europe? Check all those boxes (and more). It's not a story for kiddies. Boccaccio makes it clear on the first day of storytelling that social and spiritual mores have gone out the window, and that the stories are pure escapism—a way of relieving the sorrow and helplessness that the brigata feel as society is crumbling all around.