Comparative Literature and Culture 1020 Lecture 16: Decameron
15 Mar 2016
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Music: alberta hunter // my handyman: pleasure of metaphorical language. The stories are preceded by a preface by the author and an introduction. Revolutionary when a 14th century italian author addresses that women matter // women should have pleasure too. Boccaccio says he wants his book to be a prince. Prologue is followed by an introduction: 10 young people (3 men, 7 women the brigata meet during the plague (1348 1349) in santa maria. Novella (florence, see left) each of the men is in love with one of the women: best description of the bubonic plague: the real world has become unreal. Each person will tell a story each day for 10 days = Each day there will be a theme tragic love, happy love, etc. Day 3, story 10: erotic language filling in for actual physic eros. Marguerite de navarre: sister of the french king at the beginning of the 16th century.
