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’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 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