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Art and literature

In Giovanni Boccaccio 's 14th century Decameron, the fifth story of the narrative's fourth day involves a pot of basil as a central plot device. This famous story inspired John Keats to write his 1814 poem " Isabella, or the Pot of Basil ", which was in turn the inspiration for two paintings of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: John Everett Millais 's Isabella in 1849 and in 1868 the Isabella and the Pot of Basil by William Holman Hunt.