December 21

December 21, 1375: Giovanni Boccaccio, the Tuscan author of the Decameron, died at Certaldo. In his masterpiece, ten young Florentines flee the plague to a country villa and pass the days telling tales over shared meals and wine, leaving one of the most vivid portraits of the food, wine, and conviviality of fourteenth-century Tuscany.For more dates in wine history, click here.

 

 

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