ITL 330 PANDEMIC NARRATIVES: DECAMERON

1348 AD. The Black Death steps into the city of Florence. Set in those years, Boccaccio’s Decameron is a lesson on the salvific effects of literature. While reading Boccaccio’s work, students will experience firsthand the lesson of the Decameron through collaborative projects, and navigate the themes explored in his novelle: love, sex, and pleasure; nature and culture; nobility; social interactions; gender issues; religion and popular culture; epidemics and health; and other media.