Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron. The Adventures of Love between Life and Literature



Boccaccio gives the Decameron the “surname” of “Prince Galeotto,” thus linking it indirectly to the chivalric cycles and, more directly, to the episode of Paolo and Francesca in Canto V of Dante’s Inferno. Through the central theme of Love, and by presenting the main and most significant novellas of the Ten Days, the course aims to illustrate the “journeys”—both inner and outer, of the soul and of Time-Space—undertaken by the characters imagined by Boccaccio.