“Women Make All Things Lose Their Power”: Women’s Knowledge, Men’s Fear in the Decameron and the Corbaccio

Abstract

Whether Boccaccio is ultimately misogynous or philogynous, he clearly scrutinizes the conventions of misogyny. This essay explores how Boccaccio explores the misogynous cliché that women share a secret knowledge which they use against the normative knowledge and power of men. In the and the Boccaccio uses his trademark play with voicing to highlight the masculine fear that underlies and generates misogyny as a cultural discourse.

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