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The Decameron First Day in Perspective / Edition 2
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The first of the twelve essays opens the volume with a consideration of the Proem, demonstrating the importance of Boccaccio's literary subtexts (Ovidian and Dantean) for understanding his poetics. The second essay, on the Introduction, discusses the title of the work and the framing tale. The remaining ten contributions treat in detail each story, examining the literary, ethical, and social concerns embodied in the short narratives and in the context provided by the comments and discussions of the story-tellers, and exploring the intertextual relations within the
and with sources and analogues. This inaugural book in a new series of critical essays on the
will provide an important guide to reading the complex series of narratives that constitute the opening of the
and will serve as a guide to reading the entire work.