Language:
Italian
Pages:
Online-Ressource (335 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Fiesole Casalini Libre 2005 Editoria Italiana Online
Series Statement:
Storia e geografia / Università degli studidi Firenze, Dipartimento di studi storici egeografici 1
Keywords:
Boccaccio, Giovanni
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Boccaccio, Giovanni Characters
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Women
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Women in literature
;
Literary reference works
;
Social interaction
Abstract:
This text proposes a rereading of the Decameron that traces the female figures - 'constrained' as we are told in the Proem, by the 'wishes', 'desires' and 'orders' of fathers, mothers, brothers and husbands - in their attempt to open up areas of personal life. The possession of the female body, considered as part of the family property in a social context governed by a commercial rationale, is an instrument of the violence characterising all social relations, which Boccaccio indicates as a cause for the wrath of God that exploded in the plague of 1348. Moreover, their bodies also become an instrument in the hands of the women themselves when they decide - with all the ambiguity which the context imposed (even on the author) - to repossess the same to use it as a weapon of revenge, an occasion of joy or a gift of love
Note:
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
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Includes bibliographical references
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L. Totaro teaches at the University of Florence
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Italian
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