Boccaccio and exemplary literature : ethics and mischief in the Decameron /
This is the first monograph to provide a comprehensive interpretation of the Decameron's response to classical and medieval didactic traditions. Olivia Holmes unearths the rich variety of Boccaccio's sources, ranging across Aesopic fables, narrative collections of Islamicate origin, sermon...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2023].
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in medieval literature.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Teaching and misleading
- Ethical fables and antifeminist exempla
- From sermon story to novella
- Lives of saints; lives of sinners
- Classical and vernacular exempla
- Magister amoris
- Afterword in time of plague.