Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron

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Acknowledgments Chronology Part I. The Making of the Decameron: 1. The Decameron as a landmark of world literature 2. Boccaccio, Naples and Florence before the Decameron Part II. The Decameron: 3. Title and preface 4. First Day (Introduction) (i) the plague (ii) the mise-en-scene 5. First Day: the saint's life and the powers of language 6. Second Day: fortune, female character and the impulse to trade 7. Third Day: sex, voice and morals 8. Fourth Day (introduction): Boccaccio's apology for Florentine prose 9. Fourth Day: love and feudal aristocracy 10. Fifth Day: romance, class difference, social negotiation 11. Sixth Day: Florentine society and associational form 12. Seventh Day: controlling domestic space 13. Eighth Day: the scholar and the widow 14. Ninth Day: the mystery of Calandrino 15. Tenth Day: magnificance and myths of power 16. The return to Florence and the author's conclusion Part III. After the Decameron: Guide to further reading.

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