Olivia Homes shows how the Decameron responds to classical and medieval didactic traditions through its mischievous contents. The study will appeal to scholars of Italian literature and medieval studies, as well as to readers interested in the advent of the short story, modern narrative realism and evolutionary understandings of storytelling.
Olivia Homes shows how the Decameron responds to classical and medieval didactic traditions through its mischievous contents. The study will appeal to scholars of Italian literature and medieval studies, as well as to readers interested in the advent of the short story, modern narrative realism and evolutionary understandings of storytelling.
Olivia Holmes teaches Medieval Studies at Binghamton University. She has authored two previous monographs: Assembling the Lyric Self: Authorship from Troubadour Song to Italian Poetry Book (2000), which won the American Association of Italian Studies Book Award, and Dante's Two Beloveds: Ethics and Erotics in the Divine Comedy (2008).
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1. Ethical fables and antifeminist exempla 2. From sermon story to novella 3. Lives of saints, lives of sinners 4. Classical and vernacular exempla 5. Magister Amoris.
1. Ethical fables and antifeminist exempla 2. From sermon story to novella 3. Lives of saints, lives of sinners 4. Classical and vernacular exempla 5. Magister Amoris.
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