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May 19, 2024
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ITLT 042: (LT) Sex, Lies and Writing: Boccaccio’s DecameronSemester Hours: 3
This course offers the opportunity to examine Decameron’s narrative strategies in a gendered perspective, emphasizing how the prominent role played by women in the stories becomes instrumental in questioning cultural stereotypes and in destabilizing religious, legal and medical assumptions of medieval society. Discussion will revolve around the notion of sexual identity, the embodiment of sex in the Middle Ages and the rise of realism in 13th- and 14th-century Italian literature. All works are read and discussed in English.
Summer Offerings
SSI: 60930: Study Abroad; Castaldi/Fixell
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