The World at Play in Boccaccio's Decameron

by Giuseppe Mazzotta

Overview

Giuseppe Mazzotta provides both a powerful framework for reading the Decameron and an important contribution to medieval and contemporary debates in esthetics.

Originally published in 1986.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691638928
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	04/19/2016
Series:	Princeton Legacy Library , #381
Pages:	298
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

• FrontMatter, pg. i
• Contents, pg. ix
• Acknowledgments, pg. xi
• Bibliographic Note, pg. xiii
• Preface, pg. xv
• Introduction, pg. 1
• 1. Plague and Play, pg. 13
• 2. Marginality of Literature, pg. 47
• 3. Riddle of Values, pg. 75
• 4. Allegory and Pornography, pg. 105
• 5. The Heart of Love, pg. 131
• 6. The Comedy of Love, pg. 159
• 7. Games of Laughter, pg. 186
• 8. The Law and Its Transgressions, pg. 213
• 9. The Virtues: Ethics And Rhetoric, pg. 241
• Index, pg. 271