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6. Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron

Intro

Texts:

• The Decameron Web., Brown University.
• G. Boccaccio, The Decameron. Selected Tales. Eds. Don Beecher and Massimo Ciavolella, Broadview Press, 2017. Available for purchase in various formats (bound, PDF or ebook) at: https://broadviewpress.com/product/the-decameron-selected-tales/#tab-table-of-contents.

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:

• The Decameron Web, Brown University

Films

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