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Sexual Objects Sexual Relations
1,538 wordsBoccaccio's View of Woman For centuries Boccaccio's view of woman has been disputed by those who have read his work. Some state that Boccaccio was merely writing to entertain the people of his time, others believe that he was sexist and that his writings hold woman in an inferior, negative light. It is widely found that the people of the twentieth century find the constant downgrading of woman offensive. Throughout his stories Boccaccio tends to depict woman as sexual objects and not as people. ...
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Boccaccio Decameron Tenth Boccaccio Decameron Tenth Day Tenth Wife
1,080 wordsThroughout many great works of literature there are numerous characters whose acts are either moral or immoral. In the works Euripides "Medea", Shakespeare's "Othello" and Boccaccio's Decameron, "Tenth Day, Tenth Story", the main characters all carry out actions which in today's day and age would be immoral and inexcusable. Medea takes on the most immoral act, in Euripides great tragic work. The morale of today varies greatly with that of the time periods in which these works were written. Gualt...
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Ten Days D Aquino Work
327 wordsGiovanni Boccaccio was born in Paris on December 21, 1375 to a merchant from Certaldo who was a man of some prominence in Florence. Shortly after his birth his father deserted his mother and took Giovanni to Florence. There he was put in school until he was ten years old. He was sent to Naples to study law in 1323. He abandoned law and dedicated himself to classical and scientific studies. The king had an illegal daughter, Maria de Conti d Aquino. Even thought proof of her existent has not been ...
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Decameron And The Canterbury Tales
1,246 wordsDecameron and The Canterbury Tales Two very famous works, Decameron by Giovanni Bocaccio, and The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, indeed have a lot in similar. The issue whether Chaucer and Bocaccio knew each other is still widely debated. However, to my opinion, it is not necessary to be acquainted with each other in order to create two literary masterpieces that have lots in common. We will never find out the fact of their acquaintance, but the merits of their writings must be definitely...
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Shows That Women Fourteenth Century
801 wordsOne of the Boccaccio Boccaccio One of the most valuable tools for learning about past cultures and societies is through the literature of that period. When studying the fourteenth century, a surplus of good books exist revealing characteristics of life at that time. One of such books is The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. In The Decameron, Boccaccio describes lifestyles in the fourteenth century through 10 days of stories told by various characters. He covers all topics and even though he write...
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Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio Boccaccio Giovanni Naples
352 wordsBoccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio Boccaccio was born in Paris, in 1313, the illegitimate son of a Florentine merchant and a French noblewoman. Reared in Florence, he was sent to study accounting in Naples around 1323. He abandoned accounting for canon law and gave that up for classical and scientific studies. He took part in the life of the court of Robert d Anjou, king of Naples. The king is supposed to have had an illegitimate daughter, Maria de Conti d Aquino. Although there is ...
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