We investigate the sexual exuberance of many of Boccaccio's tales and the tension between "high" and "low" culture. We look at its scurrilous, amusing, and provocative innuendos as traces of erotic, religious, ethnic, and cultural questions. We examine the Decameron's tales and narrative frame as a point of entry into the cultural and social environment of medieval Italy. We study the Decameron as both a product and an interpretation of the world Boccaccio inhabited. They tell each other these stories while sheltered in a secluded villa as the plague of 1348 rages in Florence. 1353), a collection of 100 short stories traded by an "honest brigade" of 10 Florentine men and women. In this course we read and discuss Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron (ca. The Invention of Fiction: Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron ITAL 235 Summer Session Winter Session Home Archive Search The Invention of Fiction: Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron ITAL 235 WesMaps - Wesleyan University Catalog 2017-2018
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