A novel that was written by Alice Hoffman is the basis of Practical Magic.
=== Cervantes and the modern novel ===The rise of the modern novel as an alternative to the chivalric romance began with the publication of Miguel de Cervantes' Novelas Exemplares (1613)
 The Decameron was a compilation of one hundred novelle told by ten peopleseven women and three menfleeing the Black Death by escaping from Florence to the Fiesole hills, in 1348

