Literary analysis of tales in Boccaccio’s Decameron, with particular concern for love, gender, and men. Giovanni Boccaccio wrote his vernacular masterpiece the Decameron in Italian in Florence probably between 1348 and 1353.
Troilus in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, Boccaccio’s Il Filostrato & Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida: comparative analysis of death-seeking. … Read the post Troilus’s death-seeking: Chaucer vs. Boccaccio & Shakespeare
Comparison of Boccoccio’s Decameron X.5 (Gilberto, Dianora, and Ansaldo) and Chaucer’s The Franklin’s Tale (Arveragus, Dorigen, and Aurelius). … Read the post Boccaccio's Gilberto & Chaucer's Arveragus on wives' affairs
Sparkling amid stories containing the “lover’s gift regained” motif is Decameron VIII.2. It ends in sexual mutuality and happiness. … Read the post critical understanding of "lover’s gift regained" story motif
The Decameron’s story of Tito and Gisippo reveals, under formal ideals of civic friendship, narrow interests and dominating power. … Read the post friendship for Tito and Gisippo from Athens to Rome
In Decameron IX.10, Donno Gianni has four-legged-style vaginal intercourse with Gemmata while her husband, watching, interrupts to favor the ass. … Read the post metatextual irony follows Gemmata, Pietro and Donno Gianni