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Feb 05, 2025
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ITLT 42 - (LT) Sex, Lies and Writing: Boccaccio’s Decameron
Periodically
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.
Credits: 3 s.h.
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