The Human Comedy: Love, Religion and Morality in Boccaccio's Decameron

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The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) is a collection of one hundred stories organized within a historical framework that reflects the values and mentality of Italian society in Boccaccio's time. These stories are told by ten young narrators during a ten-day retreat spent fleeing the 1348 plague that infested Florence. The historical and cultural content of these stories includes views of gender, religious intolerance, the contrast between bourgeois and courtly love, and the importance of human nature. P: Critical Issues in Human Inquiry course or HRS 100 or HRS 101 .