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  • Abelard castrated
  • Byzantine wife saves husband
  • Amphitryon & Geta duped
  • Chastelaine de Vergi tragedy
  • Aristotle’s advice to Alexander
  • Empress Theodora: woman leader
  • Tristan & Isuet
  • Xanthippe & Socrates
  • New Modern Sexism Scale

Decameron

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.

Alibech, Rustico, and the life of Saint Pelagia

Alibech & Rustico’s story in Boccaccio’s Decameron reworks the Life of Saint Pelagia, celebrates sexuality, but questions self-centeredness and deception. … Read the post Alibech, Rustico, and the life of Saint Pelagia

Boccaccio’s inspiring ladies and Muses on Parnassus

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

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