II. Around the Decameron

The ten days

• I. “That which most pleases each one of us”
• I. A parody of the Vita nuova
• II. The alternating vicissitudes of Fortune
• II. A novel approach to eroticism
• III. Human industry
• III. Guises and hoaxes
• IV. The appearance of tragedy
• IV. Love and death
• IV. Contamination of various traditions
• IV. Fractures to the theme
• V. Amorous adventures with a happy ending
• V. Erotic metaphors
• VI. Concision e graphicness
• VI. La Valle delle Donne (Valley of Women)
• VI. Aristocratic brigades
• VI. A new society of intellect and word
• VII. The amorous triangle
• VII. Women’s hoaxes
• VII. A rewriting of the Comoedia Lydiae
• VIII. Various protagonists and various settings
• VIII. The reprobation of mercenary love
• VIII. Calandrino’s cycle
• VIII. The widow and the scholar
• IX. Towards the final goal
• IX. A macabre and sanguinary taste
• IX. The principle of marital submission
• IX. A close tie with preceding days
• X. The novelistic competition
• X. The importance of matrimony
• X. Griselda
• X. A worldly project