Il Corbaccio is a work that Giovanni Boccaccio wrote in Italian in the mid-fourteenth century. Superficially dismissed as misogyny, the Corbaccio is a masterpiece of men’s sexed protest.
John Heywood’s Play of the Weather follows Boccaccio’s Corbaccio in using mundane figures for women’s corporeality to undermine gyno-idolatry … Read the post natural and mechanical figures against gyno-idolatry
The subversive literary genius of Il Corbaccio offers imaginative resources urgently needed in our heartless, dark age of literary criticism. … Read the post Il Corbaccio: our heartless, dark age of literary criticism
Boccaccio provides a key to understanding the Corbaccio and the Decameron in the relation of realistic ladies to the Muses on Mount Parnassus. … Read the post Boccaccio’s inspiring ladies and Muses on Parnassus
Classical Arabic literature loved women with large buttocks. At least one medieval European women sought that ideal of beauty at her husband’s expense. … Read the post classical Arabic buttocks in medieval European context
The 14th-century Italian humanistic writer Boccaccio celebrated a humane social position for men in his comic masterpiece of love, Il Corbaccio. … Read the post Corbaccio’s guide recognized humane social position for men