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6. Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron

Intro

Texts:

Selection:

  • Dedica
  • III, 1. Masetto da Lamporecchio
  • III, 5. Il Zima
  • IV, 5. Isabetta da Messina
  • IV, 9. Guiglielmo Rossiglione
  • VII, 2. Peronella

Readings:

  • Barolini, Teodolinda. “The Wheel of the Decameron.Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture. New York: Fordham University Press, 15 November 2006, pp. 224-244.

Material culture to explore:

Digital resources to explore:

Films

  • Decameron, dir. by Pasolini, 1971
  • The Little Hours dir. by, 2017