Ragioni d'amore
Le donne nel Decameron
- Luigi Totaro,
The text proposes a re-reading of the Decameron concentrating on the female figures "forced", as the Proem says, "by will, by pleasures, by commandments of fathers, mothers, brothers and husbands" in their attempts to open spaces of their own lives. The possession of women's bodies, part of the family patrimony in the social context guided by trading aims, is an instrument of violence that characterises all social relationships, and that Boccaccio indicates as the cause of God's wrath that exploded in the plague of 1348. But it also becomes a tool for women when they decide with all the ambiguity that the context required (even to the author) to re-appropriate it to make it a weapon of revenge, an occasion for joy or a gift of love.
- Keywords:
- Letteratura,
- Letteratura italiana,
- Donne,
- Decameron,
- Giovanni Boccaccio,
- Series: Studi e saggi
- Scientific Board: Consiglio Editoriale FUP 2003-2006
- Language: Italian
- Subjects: Linguistic
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- © 2005 Author(s)
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University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-8051-7696
- Publication Year: 2005
- Pages: 346
- eISBN: 8884532523
- Content License: CC BY-ND 2.0
- © 2005 Author(s)
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Book Title
Ragioni d'amore
Book Subtitle
Le donne nel Decameron
Authors
Luigi Totaro
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Publication Year
2005
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© 2005 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
eISBN (pdf)
8884532523
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978-88-5518-973-6
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919
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